Memories of violence, people who have lost love (original title Die Revolte Des Korpers)

Memories of violence and corporal punishment that cannot be forgotten even as adults,
Wounds can be healed through open and sincere communication.

Dostoevsky suffered from chronic insomnia, Kafka suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis,
Virginia Woolf committed suicide due to depression, Marcel Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life... … .

The negative effects of child abuse are not just temporary but last a lifetime.
The anxiety, frustration, resentment, and fear experienced in childhood are imprinted on the child's body and mind and dominate their entire life.
Alice Miller, a world-renowned child psychologist, focuses on the negative impact that abuse and trauma received in childhood have on adult life.
Analyzing specific cases based on counseling and the lives and works of great writers such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Rimbaud from his own unique perspective, he reveals that mental trauma suffered in childhood and repressed anger are related to various diseases. there is.
Alice Miller says that religious notions that one must 'unconditionally' respect one's parents and moral norms that taboo resentment toward parents suppress the legitimate anger of abused children and lead to confusion of self and the pain of illness.
Commenting on the social atmosphere that downplays the seriousness of child abuse, the author states that the wounds caused by abuse can only be healed when one acknowledges the legitimate anger one feels and finds a true channel of communication.

Born in Poland in 1923, he moved to Switzerland in 1946. He studied philosophy, psychology, and sociology at the University of Basel, and received his doctorate in 1953. After receiving training as a psychiatrist in Zurich, he practiced as a psychiatrist for over 20 years, and since 1979 he has devoted himself to his writing activities.
Throughout all of her books, Alice Miller consistently emphasizes the mental impact of negative education received in childhood on later life, arguing that the causes of depression and other mental disorders are corporal punishment, neglect, cold treatment, and humiliation received from parents in childhood. Claims to be experiencing something like abuse. She also takes a theoretical stance against Freudian psychoanalysis.
Since publishing 『Das Drama des begabten Kindes』 in 1979, he has written more than 10 books including 『There is no love bar Evas Erwachen』, and in 1986, he contributed to child protection and human rights. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Janusz Korczak Award.