Posted by stjames on August 6, 2003, at 18:33:27
In reply to Anyone read The Drama of the Gifted Child, posted by Dinah on August 6, 2003, at 10:19:16
It has been 25 years since I have read it, and much of it is mixed in with my thearpy and how
Millers ideas applied to my situation. So it is fuzzy."Gifted" has nothing to do with talent, I.Q.,
ect. Children take on their parents wants and agendas and numb their own wants and needs. Children become mirrors for their parents needs.
In adulthood folks replay, again and again this issues and get stuck on issues that really are not their own, but thir parents. Children do not attend to their need and never get in touch with them. Their identy is defined by their parents.Quite a lot of this work is about abuse. The gift children have is to numb all this. So an adult who was abused, reading this book, is not going to get it because they supressed all of this in childhood with Millers "gift".
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