The first publication of Drama of Being a Child & of this 1997 edition are separated by fifteen years of experience
- the author's experience with her own self-therapy & with other recent therapy methods & finally her knowledge of the life histories of the several thousand readers who have written to her The research into childhood she has undertaken in this period has led to further fine-tuning of her earlier findings as is ocumented & illustrated here with an abundance of examples The author examines the consequences of repression at personal & social levels the causes of the physical andpsychological harm done to children & how this can be prevented & finally the new methods at our disposal for dealing with the consequences of infant traumas