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The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting. By Alice Miller, PhD. Pp. 228. WW Norton & Co., 2005.
Alice Miller has written movingly in previous books about the problems caused by denial of childhood suffering. In The Body Never Lies, she expands this theme, proposing that a person's denial of abuse by a parent can lead to illness or early death, and can cause problems in subsequent generations. She relates this denial to internalization at an early age of the Fourth Commandment, to honor one's father...