Pictures of a Childhood

Pictures of a Childhood Sixty-Six Watercolours and an Essay

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Publisher's Synopsis

In PICTURES OF CHILDHOOD, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative anxiety which 'somehow permits us to come to grips with the demons of our past and give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.'

Having realised in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr Miller found an unfamiliar world emerging from her paintings: not the 'nice' world of her childhood, to which she had always testified, but one of fear, despair and loneliness. Meditating on her spontaneously executed watercolours- sixty-six of which are reproduced here in full colour- and their implications, Dr Miller offers a profound analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self's struggle for survival.

Book information

ISBN: 9781860491504
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Virago
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 759.3
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 178
Weight: 212g
Height: 203mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 12mm