The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness | 
|  | | | Title: | The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness | | Author: | Alice Miller | | Publisher: | Anchor | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 February, 1991 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0385267649 / 9780385267649 | | List Price: | $13.95 | | You Save: | $2.79 | | Amazon Price: | $11.16 | |
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Since the publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child in 1981, Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of child abuse, on violence toward children and its cost to society. Now, in The Untouched Key, she explores the clues, often overlooked in biography, that connect childhood traumas to adult creativity and destructiveness. 19 drawings.
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One troubled child channels her pain into art; another vents his anguish in destructive acts. What makes the critical difference in the way each translates childhood suffering? Combing the life histories of Picasso, Buster Keaton, Nietzsche, Hitler and others, Miller concludes that the presence of an enlightened witness--someone who offers a contrast to cruelty--tips the balance between constructive expressions of "forgotten" trauma and repetitions of internalized inhumanity. She argues eloquently throughout that when adult authoritarian needs suppress children's true needs, there are dangerous societal consequences.
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• Alice Through The Looking Glass 04 July, 1999
I think it is time that ALice Miller recieve the credit due her for her enormous efforts in uncovering coded childhood trauma. Her tireless work has had an transformative and empowering impact on my life and the way I view my childhood and children. In this book Alice uncovers what some people want to view as a "masterpieces" of "ART". "What is really going on here?"she asks. "Look deeper..what is this artist trying to communicate". At times Alice observes and brings to light that the artist is screaming. THis book is SO important!
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• The Buster Keaton Part. . . . 25 March, 2007
Buster Keaton was NOT abused as a child. He himself had stated this many times in his life. He was literally strip-searched in front of both the mayor and governer of New York of his time to show the brusies and injuries on his person which were NOT THERE. Also to think about, Buster's father, Joe Keaton, was mostly angered by the fact that the social group going after their stage act, didn't protect or help the homeless and penniless children of 1910s New York and instead went after Buster who had both parents, friends, a steady job, and thought the roughhousing was a lot of fun. Remember this while reading.
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• Still The Double Whammy It Was Twenty Years Ago, First Time Around. 09 November, 2008
This book is what I consider, next to the Bible, required reading for anyone who was born, is now a parent, will be a parent, or any of the other possibilities. It gives us a clue as to why 90 percent of what we know we learned by age five! What we learned by age one is the most important!!! Just an enormously important book. Want to figure out why our kids are screwed up? Read it!
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• Extraordinary Insight 25 April, 2002
In The Untouched Key, the great psychiatrist Alice Miller has written another penetrating work about the manifestation of subconscious experiences into the conscious world. As far as I am concerned, most of the more recent modern writers on the subject have little to add to works like this one. Here is a highly respected and successful therapist, who went out on a limb and confessed to her colleagues, at a time when she could have been basking in the glory of seniority, that she finally realized she only went into the field to learn how to heal her own pain; and then had the courage to withdraw her membership from psyciatric associations once she realized their hypocrisy (which she took full responsibility for in herself, as well). In this very fine but brief work, Alice Miller studies pivotal works of art and compares their content with the life stories of their creators. The resulting analysis is impeccably true-to-life and highly plausible. She does not trivialize art in doing so, but makes a sound case for how artistic expression could be the great liberator of mankind, and brings us to even greater respect of the artists she discusses. Whether they knew it or not (probably not?) their unrestrained creativity is presented as a gift to teach and inspire us all, subconsciously or consciously, whether or not we choose to analyze it ourselves.
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