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The Drama of the Gifted Child

by Alice Miller

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2026
  • First published 1979

psychology parenting clinical psychology

The psychoanalyst argues that sensitive children often learn to meet their parents’ needs at the cost of their own feelings.   She says this pattern leads to depression and a lost sense of self in adulthood.