We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.” — Alice Miller Emotions Copy Share Image
Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience. — Alice Miller Experience Copy Share Image
We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. — Alice Miller Esteem Copy Share Image
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. — Alice Miller Mental health Copy Share Image
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws… — Alice Miller Ability Copy Share Image
“The contents of the unconscious remain unchanged and timeless. It is only as these contents become conscious that change can begin.” — Alice Miller Change Copy Share Image
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. — Alice Miller Child abuse Copy Share Image
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Contempt Copy Share Image
We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and… — Alice Miller Child Copy Share Image
The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and… — Alice Miller Father Copy Share Image
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It… — Alice Miller Abuse Copy Share Image
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were… — Alice Miller Character Copy Share Image
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and… — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as… — Alice Miller Abuse Copy Share Image
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings,… — Alice Miller Access Copy Share Image
“In every adult who has suffered abuse as a child lies dormant that small child's fear of punishment at the hands of… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
“This ability of the body is a source of never-ending wonder to me. It fights against lies with a tenacity and a… — Alice Miller Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
“There is conclusive evidence that the character of a tyrant will not change as long as he lives, that he will abuse… — Alice Miller Change Copy Share Image
“Did I not risk incurring the severest of penalties if I insisted on breaking that taboo? But my fear also helped me… — Alice Miller Fear Copy Share Image
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually… — Alice Miller Body Copy Share Image
Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing. — Alice Miller Access Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not… — Alice Miller Anger Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, I believe that preaching forgiveness is not only hypocritical and futile but also actively dangerous. It masks the compulsion to repeat.” — Alice Miller Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. — Alice Miller Belief Copy Share Image
