The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring ramifications of repressed anger and pain

Why are some of the most successful people suffering from feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound reserve has provided millions of visitors with an answer–and provides helped them to apply it with their own lives.

Too many folks had to understand as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and remembrances skillfully in order to meet up with our parents’ objectives and win their ‘like.’ Alice Miller writes, ‘When I used the term ‘gifted’ in the name, I had in mind neither children who receive high marks in college nor kids talented in a special way. I just meant all of us who’ve survived an abusive child years thanks to an capability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb…. Without this ‘gift’ provided us by nature, we might not have survived.’ But simply surviving isn’t enough. The Drama from the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our lifestyle by discovering our very own crucial needs and our own truth.