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Alice Miller, Karen Miller. Anchor Books, $15 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-385-26764-9

Picasso, Buster Keaton, Hitler and Stalin are analyzed to prove that childhood trauma or abuse is related directly to later creativity or destructiveness. ``These profiles . . . are reductionist,'' PW said. ``Swiss psychoanalyst Miller is more successful in showing how Nietzsche's stifling upbringing by pious, controlling women fueled his misogyny and his grandiose ideas.'' Illustrated . (Mar.)