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Alice Miller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 12
Died: 2010
Died: April 14
Painter
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Piotrkow Trybunalski
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Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.
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An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
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One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
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Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.
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There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
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Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
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If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.
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The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.
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Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.
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The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.
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Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
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The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
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Disrespect is the weapon of the weak
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The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden what is forbidden is to write about it.
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Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
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We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
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Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
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All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection
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