Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the… — Alice Miller Adults Copy Share Image
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully,… — Alice Miller Accepting Copy Share Image
“Even if one ultimately risks losing all contact with oneself and merely functioning as a mask, an "as if" personality, there are… — Alice Miller True story 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 Arthur-rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Most people do exactly the opposite. Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. — Alice Miller Capable 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
The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and… — Alice Miller Activity Copy Share Image
For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a… — Alice Miller Blind Copy Share Image
“The older we get, the more difficult it is to find other people who can give us the love our parents denied… — Alice Miller Parenting Copy Share Image
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be… — Alice Miller Believe Copy Share Image
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others. — Alice Miller Compassion Copy Share Image
someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we… — Alice Miller Able Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Accomplished Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the… — Alice Miller Acquire Copy Share Image
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will… — Alice Miller Beaten 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
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of… — Alice Miller Blame Copy Share Image
“If We do not do everything we can to understand the roots of this hatred, even the most elaborate strategic agreements will… — Alice Miller Nuclear weapons Copy Share Image
“Today, as adults, we know that our efforts were exploited, that this was not love in the true sense of the word.… — Alice Miller Childhood trauma Copy Share Image
Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes… — Alice Miller Activity Copy Share Image
