"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 unquestioningly accept and even perceive as a benefit the physical or mental violence inflicted upon them by their parents, while we would never demand something so illogical from an adult? And what happens later, when that "good child" who suppressed his forbidden emotions (anger, hatred, rage) for years becomes an adult? In this book, Alice Miller exposes the educational methods of the past centuries and then delves into the childhood of toxic Christiane F., dictator Adolf Hitler, child murderer Jürgen Bartsch, as well as certain artists (Sylvia Plath, Paul Klee, Peter Handke, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, etc.), revealing to us what exactly lies beneath the benevolent facade of the term "education" and at the same time showing how everything that is instilled in a child during the early years of their life has an impact on society as a whole. Addressing not only parents but primarily the child that every adult hides within themselves, she shows us that the key to breaking free from the vicious cycle of "education" is right in front of our eyes. All it takes is the willingness to take it into our hands.

"For your own good" is the result of the author's internal dialogue with the readers of her globally acclaimed book "The Prisoners of Childhood" and can be perceived as its continuation, without excluding its independent reading.