Best Alice Miller Sayings
- Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the… Acceptance
- I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of… Actually Experienced
- Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming,… Been
- The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and… Accepting
- One can only remember what has been consciously experienced. Been
- Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling… All
- Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed… Action
- 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… Anger
- In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are… Addiction
- 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… All
- The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths… Blame
- We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. Esteem
- Nobody is born evil. Born
- Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents… Any
- Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others. Compassion