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In her book, “The Drama of the Gifted Child”, Alice Miller describes the tragedy of the Mother Wound in action that besets both mother and child: “What the mother had once failed to find in her own mother she was able to find in her child: someone at her disposal who could be used as an echo and could be controlled, who was completely centered on her, would never desert her and offered her full attention and admiration. If the child’s demands become too great (as those of her own mother once did