The body never lies: the lingering effects of hurtful parenting

Introduction : morality and the body

I. Saying and concealing

1. Awe of the parents and its tragic effects : Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Kafka, Nietzsche

2. The fight for liberty in the dramas and the unheeded outcry of the body : Friedrich von Schiller

3. The betrayal of memory : Virginia Woolf

4. Self-hatred and unfulfilled love : Arthur Rimbaud

5. The imprisoned child and the necessity of denying pain : Yukio Mishima

6. Suffocated by mother's love : Marcel Proust

7. A past master at splitting off feelings : James Joyce

Postscript to part I

II. Traditional morality in therapy and the knowledge of the body

Introduction to part II

8. The familiarity of cruelty to children

9. The carousel of feelings

10. The body as guardian of the truth

11. Can I say it?

12. Kill rather than feel the truth

13. Drugs and the deception of the body

14. The right to awareness

15. Deception kills love

III. Anorexia : the longing for genuine communication

Introduction part III

16. The fictional diary of Anita Fink

Postscript

Afterword.