“This ability of the body is a source of never-ending wonder to me. It fights against lies with a tenacity and a… — Alice Miller Parenting Copy Share Image
“As adults, we will hate only if we remain trapped in a situation in which we cannot give free expression to our… — Alice Miller Free expression Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Argument Copy Share Image
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience. — Alice Miller Experience Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the point is that people who cannot estimate and respect themselves, who cannot allow themselves the free expression… — Alice Miller Creativity Copy Share Image
“The contents of the unconscious remain unchanged and timeless. It is only as these contents become conscious that change can begin.” — Alice Miller Change Copy Share Image
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. — Alice Miller Absence Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is… — Alice Miller Appearing Copy Share Image
“Compulsive substance addiction can have disastrous effects because it blocks off the path to genuine emotions and feelings. The drug can supply… — Alice Miller Addiction Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not… — Alice Miller Anger Copy Share Image
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection — Alice Miller Born Copy Share Image
“The fact is that an unscrupulous tyrant mobilizes the suppressed fears and anxieties of those who were beaten as children but have… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The… — Alice Miller Body Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Battered Copy Share Image
“The only thing that can protect us from repetition is the admission of the truth—the whole truth, with all its implications. Once… — Alice Miller Parenting Copy Share Image
“Relationships based on masklike communication of this kind cannot change. They remain what they have always been: instances of mis-communication. A genuine… — Alice Miller Communication Copy Share Image
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. — Alice Miller Mental health Copy Share Image
It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly:… — Alice Miller Beautiful Copy Share Image
Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are… — Alice Miller Care Copy Share Image
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more… — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Contempt Copy Share Image
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can… — Alice Miller Crucial Copy Share Image
