Problems of the Gifted Child

vicious cycle begun in childhood continues into adulthood, until depression or psychosis overwhelms them and they are forced to seek help.

Miller defines the "true self" in this way: "When we speak here of 'the person he really is at any given time,' we mean emotions,m sensations, and their expression from the first day onward" (). But the gifted child has learned to put his own feelings aside in order to attend to t