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How to Let Go of the Need for Approval

By Ilene Strauss Cohen — 2018

When we urgently aim to please other people, we’re seeking approval of self from outside sources. And whenever we reach for something in the outside world to give us what we should be giving ourselves, we set ourselves up for disappointment.

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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware is a provocative critique of traditional therapy’s view of childhood. It brings an essential understanding to the confrontation and treatment of the devastating effects of child abuse. Originally published in 1984, with a new introduction by the author.

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Alice Miller, Lloyd de Mause (preface)
1998
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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.

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Alice Miller
1990
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