"Superlative . . . His devotion to his patients . . . gives the book immense dignity and beauty." The New York Times Book ReviewTo abuse or neglect a child, to deprive the child of his or her own identity and ability to experience joy in life, is to commit soul murder. Drawing on a lifetime of clinical experience and wide-ranging reading in world literature, Dr. Shengold examines the ravages of soul murder in the adult lives of his patients as well as in the lives and works of such seminal writers as Dickens, Chekhov, and Kipling.