Pictures Of Childhood
Regular price
€18.99
A01=Alice Miller
Author_Alice Miller
Category=JBFK1
childhood
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
infancy
non-fiction
parenting
psychiatry
psychology
repression
trauma
virago
Product details
- ISBN 9781860491504
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 1995
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In PICTURES OF CHILDHOOD, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative anxiety which 'somehow permits us to come to grips with the demons of our past and give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.'
Having realised in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr Miller found an unfamiliar world emerging from her paintings: not the 'nice' world of her childhood, to which she had always testified, but one of fear, despair and loneliness. Meditating on her spontaneously executed watercolours- sixty-six of which are reproduced here in full colour- and their implications, Dr Miller offers a profound analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self's struggle for survival.
Alice Miller has taught and practised psychoanalysis for more than 20 years yet has questioned the validity of psychoanalytic theories and resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of 7 books which have been translated into 21 languages.
