After the international success of her book "The Prisons of Childhood", Alice Miller proceeds to explore the causes and consequences of childhood traumas, arguing that children who have suffered violence from their parents or teachers in their infancy or childhood will eventually turn this violence against society.

New research on the human brain confirms her belief that our bodies have stored all the memories of our early experiences, those that our conscious mind had to repress early on in order to survive in abusive conditions. However, if these memories do not find an outlet through appropriate behaviors towards our children or society, then they will eventually manifest themselves, often in the form of illness symptoms. In "The Awakening of Eve", Alice Miller, through revealing examples and their insightful analysis, urges us to dare to confront our traumatic past - to taste, like Eve, the fruit from the tree of knowledge - in order to release "the child within us" that was never allowed to be its true self, so that it can now live liberated and healthy, reconciled with its authentic emotions and genuine needs.