Book
The body never lies : the lingering effects of cruel parenting
Edition
1st ed.
Languages
Translated from the German.
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Physical Description
214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
- Introduction: morality and the body
- Saying and concealing. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche
- The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body: Friedrich von Schiller
- The betrayal of memory: Virginia Woolf
- Self-hatred and unfulfilled love: Arthur Rimbaud
- The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain: Yukio Mishima
- Suffocated by mother's love: Marcel Proust
- A past master at splitting off feelings: James Joyce
- Traditional morality in therapy and the knowledge of the body. The familiarity of cruelty to children
- The carousel of feelings
- The body as guardian of the truth
- Can I say it?
- Rather kill than feel the truth
- Drugs and the deception of the body
- The right to awareness
- Anorexia: the longing for genuine communication. The fictional diary of Anita Fink.
Subjects
- Child abuse > Psychological aspects.
- Family violence > Psychological aspects.
- Discipline of children > Psychological aspects.
- Parenting > Psychological aspects.
- Adult child abuse victims > Mental health.
- Abused children > Mental health.
- Authors > Psychology.
- Medicine, Psychosomatic.
- Parent and child.
- Cruelty.