Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptines and alienation? This wise and profound nd book has provided thousands of read ers with an answer-and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.
Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, airte memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win theh "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive child- hood to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived." But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
