The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self Audiobook (Free)

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

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by emotions of emptiness and alienation? This smart and profound publication has provided millions of visitors with an answer–and offers helped them to use it with their own lives.

Too many of us had to understand as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully to be able to meet our parents’ targets and get their ‘love.’ Alice Miller writes, ‘When I used the term ‘gifted’ in the name, I had at heart neither kids who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I just meant most of us who have survived an abusive years as a child because of an ability to adapt actually to unspeakable cruelty by getting numb…. Without this ‘present’ offered us naturally, we might not need survived.’ But simply surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Kid assists us to reclaim our life by discovering our own essential needs and our very own truth.