Helpful Score: 1
I thought the book was very challenging and thought provoking. I would recommend it for helping to search how our childhood effects us.
Rebecca C. (bookbum55) - , reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 24 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
There is much discussion of anal/oral fixations and Oedipal compulsions. It was as if the author more or less used the language of her time (the 70's) to justify her thinking. However, there is one point that is very strong: When a mother is not properly and lovingly raised as a unique person when she is a child, she will find it difficult to allow her own children to grow up with their own unique identies. I have seen this in my own childhood.
sphinx reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 97 more book reviews
The new title, "Drama of The Gifted Child", is not very accurate. The original title, "Prisoners of Childhood" is the better title to describe the book. This book is not about "gifted and talented" children as Americans in the late 20th century thought about them, it is about ALL children and the fact that we are all born extremely sensitive to emotions and the world around us.
The book describes how our personalities are essentially destroyed by our parents not accepting us for who we really are and punishing us (consciously or unconsciously) for showing emotions they disapprove of. This is about how we are rewarded or punished for things we do, and how we are trained to jump through hoops and suppress our true personalities to gain approval.
I found this book to be profoundly helpful in my own journey towards emotional maturity and evolution towards true adulthood (age does not indicate whether you've grown up or not), and I highly recommend it for anyone who has reached the stage of growth where they are ready to look at their parents with honesty and objectivity instead of idolising them and giving their abusive behaviour a free pass.
5 stars.
The book describes how our personalities are essentially destroyed by our parents not accepting us for who we really are and punishing us (consciously or unconsciously) for showing emotions they disapprove of. This is about how we are rewarded or punished for things we do, and how we are trained to jump through hoops and suppress our true personalities to gain approval.
I found this book to be profoundly helpful in my own journey towards emotional maturity and evolution towards true adulthood (age does not indicate whether you've grown up or not), and I highly recommend it for anyone who has reached the stage of growth where they are ready to look at their parents with honesty and objectivity instead of idolising them and giving their abusive behaviour a free pass.
5 stars.
Carrie N. (clnelson) reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 45 more book reviews
Very psycho-babbley. Bleak, whiny, and depressing. p.s. As the author gets to quickly, gifted in this title does not refer to smart, it refers to abused. Perhaps if I'd read the back of the book, I would not have been so disappointed.
Cindy C. (gibsongirl) reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 18 more book reviews
Classic guide to the inner workings of these unique children. Must for every parents of a intellectually, emotionally or physically gifted child.
JEANETTE A. (gianetti) reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 25 more book reviews
(Subhead: The Search for the True Self.) Identifying how parents treat children and how the world appears to children as they're indoctrinated into rules, expectations and attitudes all around them... chapter titles are: I - The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Psychoanalyst's Narcissistic Disturbance. __ - Depression and Grandiosity as Related Forms of Narcissistic Disturbance. III - The Vicious Circle of Contempt.
About sensitive, alert children
Faith H. (FaithVoid) reviewed The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self on + 20 more book reviews
The "drama" of the gifted- ie sensative, alet- child consists of his/her ecognition at a very early ageof his/her parents' needs and of adaptation to those needs.
Dr. Miller discusses the experience of childrens' inability to experience authentic emotions.She tries to help them regain the lost capacity for genuine feeling.
Dr. Miller discusses the experience of childrens' inability to experience authentic emotions.She tries to help them regain the lost capacity for genuine feeling.
