The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. — Alice Miller Child abuse Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that my own body is the source of all the vital information that has enabled me to achieve… — Alice Miller Confidence Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Adults Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Adult life 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
“Of course, people who have been severed from their true feelings since early childhood will be dependent on institutions like the church… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect… — Alice Miller Achievement 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
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time. — Alice Miller Heal Copy Share Image
If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him… — Alice Miller Children 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
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
If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning,… — Alice Miller Body Copy Share Image
Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all… — Alice Miller Best mother Copy Share Image
“Once we have learned to live with our feelings and not to fight against them, we see in the manifestations of our… — Alice Miller Danger Copy Share Image
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the… — Alice Miller Grief 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
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Able 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
Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing. — Alice Miller Grief Copy Share Image
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is… — Alice Miller Creation Copy Share Image
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous.… — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
“Enforced love is not love. All it can lead to is a "sham" relationship without any genuine communication, a pretense of warmth… — Alice Miller Communication Copy Share Image
