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1923–2010 Poland
Alice Miller (born Alicija Englard; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages.
Poland Philosophers Psychologists Also known as: Alice Miller, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, Prisoners of Childhood, The Body Never Lies, The Drama of the Gifted Child
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Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
Prisoners of Childhood / The Drama of the Gifted Child (1981)
A genuine relationship is possible only if both partners can admit their feelings, experience them and communicate them to each other without fear.
The Body Never Lies (2005)
The mother can feel herself the center of attention, for her child's eyes follow her everywhere. A child cannot run away from her as her own mother once did.
Prisoners of Childhood / The Drama of the Gifted Child (1981)
When our children can consciously experience their early helplessness and rage, they will no longer need to ward off these feelings, in turn, with the exercise of power over others.
Prisoners of Childhood / The Drama of the Gifted Child (1981)
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)
Hard as it is to believe, in the entire world there is not a single faculty in which a degree is offered in the study of psychic injuries in childhood.
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)
If one day the secret of childhood were to become no longer a secret, the state would be able to save immense sums that it spends on hospitals, psychiatric clinics, and prisons maintaining our blindness. That this might deliberately happen is almost too incredible a thought.
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (1991)
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