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THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD The Search for the True Self Completely Revised and Updated With a New Afterword by the Author Alice Miller TRANSLATED BY RUTH WARD Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group A previous version of chapter 1 appeared in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis 60 (1979): 47; a previous version of chapter 2 appeared in the International Review of Psychoanalysis 6 (1979): 61. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following: Hermann Hesse, “A Child’s Heart,” from Klingsor’s Last Summer, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), and Demian, translated by Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (New York: Harper & Row, 1965). Revised edition copyright © 1997 by Basic Books. Afterword to the revised edition copyright © 2007 by Alice Miller. Originally published in German as Das Drama des begabten Kindes. Copyright © 1979 by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main. First published in the United States as Prisoners of Childhood. Copyright © 1981 by Basic Books. All rights reserved. No part ......