Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of empti-

ness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of

readers 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,

and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents expectations and win

their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word gifted in the title, I

had in 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 childhood thanks 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.

【瑞士】愛麗絲•米勒（Alice Miller）

一位以關注兒童早期心理創傷及其對成年生活影響而聞名世界的心理學傢。她顛覆瞭傳統的兒童心理學觀點，提醒世人注意到父母對兒童的侵犯所帶來的影響，並在歐洲引起巨大共鳴。米勒齣生在波蘭猶太傢庭，第二次世界大戰期間在納粹的迫害中幸存，1946年獲得奬學金進入瑞士最古老的巴塞爾大學，1953年起陸續獲得哲學、心理學和社會學博士學位，並接受精神分析訓練。米勒2010年辭世，享年87歲，留下許多膾炙人口的著作，為廣大讀者拓寬瞭看待兒童心理學的視野。代錶作有：《身體不會說謊》《夏娃的覺醒》等。