Cover of The Transcendent Child

Book 1997

The Transcendent Child

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Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Language
English
Published
1997
  • Case studies
  • Problem families
  • Adult child abuse victims

AS A CHILD RAISED IN A FAMILY WHERE DEATH, POVERTY, DEPRESSION, and a mother's nearly psychotic rage determined daily life, I have lived with both the guilt and the wonder of being the transcendent child, the one who overcame the deficits of that past when my brother could not.