Children who are intelligent, alert, attentive, sensitive, and completely attuned to the mothers well-being are entirely at her disposal. Transparent, clear, and reliable, they are easy to manipulate as long as their true self (their emotional world) remains in the cellar of the glass house in which they have to live — sometimes until puberty or until they come to therapy, and very often until they have become parents themselves.
— The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self Third Edition (Alice Miller), Loc. 315–8