Download or read book Banished Knowledge written by Alice Miller and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling classic The Drama of the Gifted Child—a book that believes that children are inherently good and traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments. In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, "Alice Miller writes lucidly and passionately, asks daring questions and sees through conventions that most of us take for granted" (San Francisco Chronicle).