As cases of child abuse make headlines almost daily, Alice Miller's books are more essential than ever. In Breaking the Wall of Silence, the author develops themes that were introduced in her earlier works. Here, Miller draws on numerous examples, such as beatings and rapes of minors, as well as psycho-historical analyses of cases involving brutal tyrants, highlighting a reality we can no longer afford to ignore: abused children grow up to become a danger to society. The "wall of silence" is what society has erected.