Open your eyes, Alice Miller tells us in each of her books. Open your eyes and face what you endured in your childhood. The walls we build to protect ourselves from the memory of the painful experiences of our childhood are high and strong, but not impregnable. Through her personal story, children's testimonies, letters from her readers, and texts from world literature, Miller suggests that we try the forbidden fruit of repressed knowledge: to abandon for a while the paradise of illusions and the deceptive certainty about the good parents who did everything "for our good," so that, as we raise our children, we do not repeat the same mistakes. Her criticism targets not only parents, their pedagogical methods, the Church, or teachers, but also psychotherapists, psychoanalysis, and even its "father," Sigmund Freud.