Alice Miller (psychologist) Quotes
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpect...
Show MoreGenuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ou...
Show MoreIf it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take th...
Show MoreGenuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to...
Show MoreBecause the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time th...
Show MoreTrue autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only be...
Show MoreOnce upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...
Show MoreAlthough the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a qu...
Show MoreToday it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different value...
Show MoreOnce upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...
Show MoreWe don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...
Show MoreFor the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as lo...
Show MoreAll children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feeli...
Show MoreExperience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illnes...
Show MoreTo forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repress...
Show MoreThe public forum is not, of course, the most helpful place to conduct a profitable confrontation wit...
Show MoreChild abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of th...
Show MoreNot to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered...
Show MoreA human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one...
Show MoreCruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinf...
Show MoreWhat is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tell...
Show MoreThe more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more...
Show MoreNarcissistic cathexis of the child by the mother does not exclude emotional devotion. On the contrar...
Show MoreExperience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illnes...
Show MoreI've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
Show MoreChild abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defi...
Show MoreWithout realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...
Show MoreThis story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people...
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