Vantage Point 1990 -- Preface to the British edition -- Preface to the original edition -- HOW CHILD-REARING CRUSHES SPONTANEOUS FEELINGS: GLIMPSES OF A REVERED TRADITION: "Poisonous Pedagogy" : Introduction -- Breeding grounds of hatred: guides to child-rearing from two-centuries -- Summary -- The "sacred" values of child-rearing -- The central mechanism of "poisonous pedagogy" : splitting off and projection -- Is There a Harmless Pedagogy? : Gentle violence -- Pedagogy fills the needs of parents, not of children -- THE LAST ACT OF THE SILENT DRAMA: THE WORLD REACTS WITH HORROR: Introduction -- The War of Annihilation Againt the Self: The lost opportunity of puberty -- The search for the self and self-destruction through drugs: the life of Christine F. -- The hidden logic of absurb behavior -- Adolf Hitler's Childhood" from Hidden to Manifest Horror: Introduction -- Hitler's father and his relationship with his son -- Hiter's mother: her position in the family and her role in Adolf's life -- Summary -- Jurgen Bartsch: a Life Seen in Retrospect: Introduction -- "Out of the clear blue sky?" -- What does a murder tell us about the childhood of the murderer? -- The walls of silence -- Concluding comments -- STEPS ON THE PATH TO RECONCILIATION: ANXIETY, ANGER, AND SORROW--BUT NO GUILT FEELINGS: Unintentional cruelty hurts, too -- Sylvia Plath: an example of forbidden suffering -- Unlived anger -- The permission to know -- Afterword -- Appendix.