In The Drama of the Gifted Child, the world-famous Swiss pyschoanaytst, Alice Miller, describes the histories of those sensitive people whose natural gifts and talents have been exploited since childhood.

This is a remarkable study, based partly on her work with patients and partly on the childhood experiences of some of the century's most gifted artists--Beckett, Bergman, Daudet, Hesse, Henry Moore and Stravinsky. Dr Miller shows how gifted children, well adapted to the needs of their parents, lose their ability to experience and express their authentic feelings, especially feeling of sadness, and become tragically estranged from their true selves: the source of their natural vitality.

Many of Alice Miller's readers have discovered within themselves, often for the first time in their lives, the little child that they once were. This will explain the unusually strong and deep reactions this book has provoked in so many readers from so many different countries.

【瑞士】爱丽丝•米勒（Alice Miller）

一位以关注儿童早期心理创伤及其对成年生活影响而闻名世界的心理学家。她颠覆了传统的儿童心理学观点，提醒世人注意到父母对儿童的侵犯所带来的影响，并在欧洲引起巨大共鸣。米勒出生在波兰犹太家庭，第二次世界大战期间在纳粹的迫害中幸存，1946年获得奖学金进入瑞士最古老的巴塞尔大学，1953年起陆续获得哲学、心理学和社会学博士学位，并接受精神分析训练。米勒2010年辞世，享年87岁，留下许多脍炙人口的著作，为广大读者拓宽了看待儿童心理学的视野。代表作有：《身体不会说谎》《夏娃的觉醒》等。