For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence audiobook runs 11.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Jo Anna Perrin (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jo Anna Perrin
Jo Anna Perrin narrates 100 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 953 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
621 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence is an audiobook by Alice Miller: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Jo Anna Perrin, released May 30, 2017, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Relationships & Intimacy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jo Anna Perrin
- Released
- May 30, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology, Relationships & Intimacy, Parenting
- ISBN
- 9781541475779
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence audiobook?
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.
Is the For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence?
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence is narrated by Jo Anna Perrin.
Is For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.