Preface: Telling Children the Truth
I THE EXILED SELF
1 Depression: Compulsive Self-Deception
2 Mommie Dearest
II FROM VICTIM TO DESTROYER
3 How Does Evil Come into the World?
4 What Is Hatred?
5 The Wellsprings of Horror
6 Private Mania
7 Ideal Soldiers: When Will We No Longer Need Them?
8 Sheer Sadism
9 The Tragedy of Jessica
III THERAPY: RESOLVING THE CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY CRUELTY
10 The Longest Journey, or What Can We Expect from Psychotherapy?
11 Taking it Personally: Indignation as a Vehicle of Therapy
12 Misleading Information
13 We Can Identify the Causes of Our Sufferings
14 How to Find the Right Therapist
15 Answers to Readers’ Letters
IV INTERVIEWS
16 The Feeling Child: Interview, March 1987
17 Beyond Philosophy: Interview, November 1992
18 Violence Kills Love: Spanking, the Fourth Commandment, and the Suppression of Authentic Feelings: Interview, June 2005
19 Combating Denial: Interview, July 2005
V FROM THE DIARY OF A MOTHER
20 From the Diary of a Mother
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