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This best-selling book examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain. Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound audiobook has provided millions of people with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.

For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term effects of abusive child-rearing.

Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases.

Umilinta traita de copii, sentimentele lor reprimate de neputinta, furie si ura la adresa parintilor se manifesta la maturitate sub forma bolilor, fie ele cancer, accidente vasculare sau alte afectiuni grave, iar neputinta, lipsa permisiunii personale si sociale de a le constientiza la varsta adulta isi gaseste paralela in dependenta de substante care insoteste de multe ori starea de vid interior rezultata in urma refularii si a clivajului interior.

Wir könnten uns selbst und andere aufrichtig lieben, wenn wir echte Liebe von den eigenen Eltern erfahren hätten...

On the eve of World War I, 21-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees - on her own for the first time - is introduced to the acclaimed poet W. B. Yeats at a soirée in London. Although Yeats is famously eccentric and many years her senior, Georgie is drawn to him, and when he extends a cryptic invitation to a secret society, her life is forever changed. A shadow falls over London as zeppelins stalk overhead and bombs bloom against the skyline. Amidst the chaos, Georgie finds purpose tending to injured soldiers in a makeshift hospital, befriending the wounded and heartbroken Lieutenant Pike....

Best-seller du New York Times ! Avez-vous déjà réfléchi pourquoi tant de personnes, bien qu'elles soient couronnées de succès, ressentent un vide intérieur et une aliénation ? Savez-vous que les traumatismes de l'enfance peuvent avoir des effets durables sur la gestion de la colère et de la douleur refoulées ? Dans Le drame de l’enfant doué, Alice Miller, psychologue et psychanalyste renommée, explore ces questions avec une profondeur et une perspicacité remarquables. À travers ce livre, Miller examine les conséquences des abus subis durant l'enfance et comment ces expériences façonnent notre vie adulte.

In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.

There are moments when the past and the present come together. Joseph knows who he was in 1890, but that man isn't the same man he is today, or is he? Joseph struggles with depression, trying to find his identity when the distant past makes a surprising return to his life. It's enlightening with a mixture of happiness and sorrow as Joseph tries to sort it all out. Content warning: Inter-generational Indigenous trauma, extreme violence, murder, extreme abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug use, suicide, single parent trauma and the loss of loved ones. If you enjoyed The Returning Warrior, continue...

John Stands Proud talks about his son, Joseph and his son's boyfriend, Gianni. He talks about his grandson & granddaughter, Miguelito and Rosa. When Joseph's son is threatened, he is taken to the Middle East where he discovers a horrible secret. He enters a world of child abuse and sexual slavery to save the son of an exiled King. When he returns to the U.S.A, Joseph ignores the danger facing him and he travels to New York City, making a last and final attempt to free himself from the bonds of being an owned fighter. If you enjoyed I Am My Own Master, read Everything He Wanted Uninhibited (...

Maybe there isn't an escape from the past. Joseph Silver Hawk does what everyone wants him to do, but it doesn't seem to be enough and his enemies are still trying to find him. When Gianni Tassiano pays a visit,secrets are revealed and old wounds become raw. Gianni would do anything to help his friend Joseph heal, but he's running out of options. If you enjoyed A Warrior's Courage look for Silver Hawk, A Warrior's Respect, the 7th book of the Silver Hawk Warrior series.

When Mr. Burton Crane leases a house in the country, he expects it to be fully staffed. Except—it isn’t. Mr. Crane enlists the help of his friend, Mrs. Falkener, to interview his prospective cook, butler, housemaid, and general helper. She, however, doesn’t like them—but Mr. Crane is especially drawn to the cook and overrules his friend. But was Mrs. Falkener right to be suspicious? Who are these servants, really? Soon the helper, the housemaid, and the butler are dismissed, leaving only the cook—a most improper scenario!

Melissa Donaldson has a secret she keeps close to her chest. A secret that breaks her heart each and every time she thinks about it. Scott Bailey is an Oscar-winning actor and the darling of Hollywood. He too hides a secret, and it must never see the light of day. Christmas is coming fast when Melissa and Scott meet by chance. The attraction is mutual and they slip into a loving relationship as naturally as kisses under the mistletoe. But is Lynn, Scott’s assistant, working to her own agenda to make a life with her boss? Can the magic of Christmas continue when an unforeseen accident ...

When they were boys, Gianni Tassiano crawled through a vent to bring bread to eight year old Joseph Argent who was being kept in a basement under the cruel abuse of Don Antone. As they grew, their friendship remained, and although Joseph Silver Hawk Argent struggled to forget the pain of being abused, he never forgot Gianni's acts of kindness that kept him alive. After ten long years of mistreatment, in A Warrior's Respect, Joseph begins to understand what it means to have respect for himself and learns that he is worthy of love. He learns that in spite of all that has happened to him, he ...

Joseph finds his mother's journal in a box that he brought with him from New York. He reads in her own words what she thought of the things he was doing in the city. He continues to try and escape his past, to get along with his twin brother who hates him, and he struggles to understand his father. Content warning: Inter-generational Indigenous trauma, extreme violence, murder, extreme abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug use, suicide, single parent trauma and the loss of loved ones. If you enjoyed Silver Hawk A Warrior's Heart, Juanita's Journal, continue reading with The Returning Warrior, the...

A tragedy sends Joseph Silver Hawk back to the Indian reservation, but it won't be easy. He was raised in New York and that's what he knows. John Stand's Proud, his father, spent 13 years in prison. He never raised children, let alone two teenage boys. Seth Lone Wolf lived on the reservation all his life and doesn't want anything to do with Joseph. Can they live in the same house to try and honor their mother's last wish? Aside from the fact that they don't know one another, Joseph struggles as a recovering addict from drug and alcohol abuse. He has severe PTSD and suffers from reoccurring ...

Joseph Silver Hawk Argent is on the run. He's running from the cops and an ancient prophecy that he doesn't want anything to do with. He's seventeen, a leader of the Los Caballeros street gang and even though he's Native American, he doesn't want any part of where he came from. A Holy man has pegged Joseph or Cheetah, as his friends call him, as a warrior who lived during the days of Crazy Horse but Joseph lives in New York. He wants nothing to do with his past or a past life that he doesn't care about. Frank Belger is the cop who only cares about one thing. He's determined to catch the ...

The end of the Silver Hawk Warrior series.

Jessie Grace Weston is a mountain girl from the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and she never faints at the first sign of trouble. Instead, she picks up her rifle. She needs a friend and Luke 'River' LaRiviere fits perfectly into her life but River is Shawnee and French, trying to discover where he belongs when the French and Indian War erupts and chaos ensues in their lives. The new settlers want the land and will stop at nothing to get it. Jessie Grace and River watch as all that is familiar around them changes. When it is over, what will be left for them?

For most people living once is enough. What if you lived before and you remember everything that happened? Experience Silver Hawk's first life. Read about the Great Sioux Nation and their fight to survive on the plains. Then, follow Joseph Silver Hawk Argent to New York City during his second lifetime where he has a serious identity crisis trying to reconcile the past, present and his future. Great Sioux warrior or New York City gang leader? Joseph Silver Hawk Argent’s past life haunts him. He knows who he was. He remembers the Battle of Little Bighorn and the heartache of Wounded Knee. ...