"An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that……" — Alice Miller

"An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time."

— Alice Miller

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65 Quotes by Alice Miller

Alice Miller has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells…
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people…
Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,…
Empathy grows as we learn.
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as…
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the…
People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had…
Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is…
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never…

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