The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult SelfReturning to the themes of her classic Drama of the Gifted Child, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds |
Contents
PREFACE | ix |
THOU SHALT NOT KNOW | 1 |
MEDICATION VERSUS MEMORY | 19 |
EVADING CHILDHOOD REALITY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY | 43 |
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND POLITICAL MISSIONS | 57 |
PRISONERS TIME BOMBS IN THE BRAIN | 69 |
THE SILENCE OF THE CHURCH | 77 |
BIOGRAPHICAL BLIND SPOTS | 95 |
BARRIERS IN THE MIND | 113 |
TALKING IT THROUGH | 143 |
WITHOUT ENLIGHTENED WITNESSES | 157 |
THE HEALING POWER OF TRUTH | 165 |
FROM IGNORANCE TO KNOWLEDGE AND COMPASSION | 187 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 197 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 201 |
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