Alice Miller Quotes

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• Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… Accomplished
• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that… Addiction
• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken… Broken
• Courage can be just as infectious as fear. Courage
• People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth… Able
• Empathy grows as we learn. Empathy
• 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… Activity
• The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. Children
• Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with… Abuse
• People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems… Admired
• Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is… Abuse
• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can… Accept
• Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what… Cannot Learn
• Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if… Always Apparent
• For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. Ability
• An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. Any
• Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. Any
• If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body… All
• It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it… Absolutely
• The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for… Ability

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