What are you reading?

[nycfem]

I like to do that too.

Ya know, I actually never finished "The Drama..." It was years ago in grad school, and other reading ended up taking priority, and I never went back to it, though the book sits on my shelf waiting for me to go back to it. It's not light reading, so I seem to end up picking up other books instead. Still, it's great and powerful writing. What I was struck by is her psychoanalytic ability to just get right into MY psyche, such that I was having intense dreams about issues from childhood related to her writing that I'd never put together before in consciousness. That's a rarity for me, even though I am a therapist myself and certainly have read other books that examine childhood with depth. Another writer I like that reminds me a bit of Walker is D.W. Winnicot (e.g. the true self vs. the false self). His analytic philosophy and conceptions have a primal truth to them that make sense to me.

Originally Posted by greco

nycfembbw,

Yes, Alice Miller broke some ground didn't she? Interestingly, "The Drama of the Gifted Child" was originally published as "Prisoners of Childhood"? Can you give a review of "The Drama of...."? What made the greatest impact for you in it? I'm reading all her books. Immersing myself in a topic, a theme is one of the ways I enjoy critically thinking about it.

Greco