“The answer is that we can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. We… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good… — Alice Miller Authenticity Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Abused children Copy Share Image
Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks… — Alice Miller Able Copy Share Image
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about… — Alice Miller Addiction Copy Share Image
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the… — Alice Miller Abuse Copy Share Image
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place… — Alice Miller Abused children Copy Share Image
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It… — Alice Miller Abuse Copy Share Image
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be… — Alice Miller Able Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Ability Copy Share Image
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Awakened Copy Share Image
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected… — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing. — Alice Miller Access Copy Share Image
Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. — Alice Miller Kind Copy Share Image
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws… — Alice Miller Ability Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, I believe that preaching forgiveness is not only hypocritical and futile but also actively dangerous. It masks the compulsion to repeat.” — Alice Miller Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as… — Alice Miller Abuse Copy Share Image
“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,… — Alice Miller Abandonment Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be… — Alice Miller Accepting Copy Share Image
“Today's children and grandchildren are entitled to be aware, they are entitled to believe what they saw and felt as children. They… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
“Can forgivenes for the crimes done to a child be not just ineffective but actively harmful? It certainly can because the body… — Alice Miller Blind eye Copy Share Image
“Behind manifest grandiosity, there constantly lurks depression, and behind a depressive mood there often hide unconscious (or conscious but split off) fantasies… — Alice Miller Deep pain Copy Share Image
“As a rule, beaten, tormented, and humiliated children who have never received support from a helping witness later develop a high degree… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it.… — Alice Miller Accepting Copy Share Image
