The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Behave Copy Share Image
“Unless the heir casts off his “inheritance” by becoming fully conscious of his true past, and thus of his true nature, loneliness… — Alice Miller Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Did I not risk incurring the severest of penalties if I insisted on breaking that taboo? But my fear also helped me… — Alice Miller Fear Copy Share Image
We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. — Alice Miller Esteem Copy Share Image
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look… — Alice Miller Absence Copy Share Image
The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating… — Alice Miller Ability Copy Share Image
Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term… — Alice Miller Addiction Copy Share Image
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace. — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
“Probably every child who has suffered abuse must assume an attitude like this in order to survive. These children reinterpret their perceptions… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live… — Alice Miller Action Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Acceptance Copy Share Image
“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.” — Alice Miller Emotions Copy Share Image
We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner… — Alice Miller Children Copy Share Image
We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
“To break through this vicious circle we need to understand that so-called love cannot survive abuse, deception, and exploitation without seeking new… — Alice Miller Innocent people Copy Share Image
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the… — Alice Miller Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and… — Alice Miller Childhood Copy Share Image
