The book by Swiss psychotherapist Alice Miller “The Drama of the Gifted Child” is a world bestseller. It is devoted to the study of the nature of children's mental trauma received during their upbringing. In his book, the author raises the most important problem: how repressed traumatic experiences affect a person’s personal life and social success and give rise to mental illness. The crippling effects of rearing adults and psychotherapy of mental trauma received in early childhood are shown. Alice Miller's brilliant work had a shocking effect in the West and forced many to take a fresh look at their childhood and relationships with their own children. For psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, as well as anyone interested in childhood problems.