With a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282).

An analysis of the roots of violence examines the impact of traditional child rearing practices on human violence in adulthood. "[This book] explores the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children. [The author] investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions - on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler - offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which [the author] vehemently rejects. This study paints a shocking picture of the violent world that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard - namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression." -http://www.booksinprint.com.

Translation of the German edition.

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