After the international success of her book `The Prisoners of Our Childhood`, Alice Miller continues to explore the causes and consequences of childhood trauma, arguing that children who have experienced violence from their parents or teachers in infancy or childhood will eventually turn that violence against society.

New research in the human brain confirms her view that our bodies have stored all the memories of our early experiences, those that our conscious mind had to repress very early on in order to survive in abusive conditions.

However, if these memories do not find an outlet through corresponding behaviors towards our children or society, they will eventually emerge, often in the form of illness symptoms.

In `The Awakening of Eve`, Alice Miller, through revealing examples and her insightful analysis, encourages us to dare to confront our traumatic past - to taste like Eve the fruit from the tree of knowledge - so that we can release `the child within us` that was never allowed to be itself, allowing it now, freed and healthy, to live in harmony with its authentic feelings and true needs.