"For Your Own Good!" Which child hasn't heard it, which parent hasn't said it. But how innocent is this phrase? Why is it logical to expect a child to accept without complaint and even perceive as a benefit the physical or emotional abuse they suffer from their parents, when we would never demand something so unreasonable from an adult? And what happens later, when that "good child" who has suppressed their forbidden feelings (anger, hatred, rage) for years becomes an adult? In this book, Alice Miller exposes the pedagogical methods of recent centuries and then delves into the childhoods of the drug addict Christiane F., the dictator Adolf Hitler, the child murderer Jürgen Bartsch, as well as some artists (Sylvia Plath, Paul Klee, Peter Handke, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, etc.), revealing to us what exactly lies beneath the benevolent guise of the term "education" and, at the same time, demonstrating how what is instilled in a child during the first years of their life impacts the entire society. Addressing not only parents but mainly the child that every adult hides within, she shows us that the key to breaking the vicious cycle of "education" is right before our eyes. All it takes is the will to take it into our hands.

"For Your Own Good" is the result of the author's internal dialogue with the readers of the book that established her worldwide - "The Drama of the Gifted Child" - and can be seen as its continuation, without excluding its independent reading.