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This book investigates the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the adult body, showing how a child's emotional trauma, repressed humiliation and bottled rage can manifest.  "Ultimately the body will rebel.  Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind.  We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but is rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality". "Alice Miller makes chillingly clear .... the extraordinary pain and psychological suffering inflictied on children under the guise of conventional childrearing" (Marice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are").