Alice Miller (psychologist) Category
The Body Never Lies
Posted on March 29, 2021 1 Comment
In The Body Never Lies, Miller pays particular attention to the Fourth Commandment—the edict that one must honor one’s parents, no matter their conduct. For thousands of years, this commandment—in concert with our personal denial of early maltreatment—has led us toward repression, emotional detachment, illness and suicide. This Commandment, suggests the author, is a species of […]
Free From Lies | Alice Miller
Posted on June 6, 2020 1 Comment
Free From LiesDiscovering your true needs Reading this book is a therapeutic encounter with one’s own life’s story. Dr. Alice Miller, author of such world-renowned books as the Drama of the Gifted Child and The Truth Will Set You Free, has devoted her life to empowering people who have severe symptoms from denying that they […]
The Truth Will Set You Free | Alice Miller en
Posted on June 6, 2020 1 Comment
The Truth Will Set You FreeOvercoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self Drawing on the latest research on brain development, Miller speaks out against the increasing popularity of childhood corporal punishment and demonstrates how spanking and other disciplinary traumas are encoded in the brain, stunting our ability to overcome them. Our bodies retain […]
Self-Hatred and Unfulfilled Love (Arthur Rimbaud)
Posted on June 6, 2020 1 Comment
Rimbaud’s mother maintained total control over her children and called this control motherly love. Her acutely perceptive son saw through this lie. He realized that her constant concern for outward appearances had nothing to do with love. But he was unable to admit to this observation without reserve, because as a child he needed love, […]
The Body Never Lies | Alice Miller en
Posted on June 6, 2020 1 Comment
While examining everything from parental spanking to sexual abuse and emotional blackmail, Miller exposes the societal pressures that converge to harm children. She explains that we have so many societal mechanisms to prevent us from feeling anger or rage against our parents that we tend never to confront our own feelings. To combat the debilitating […]
Alice Miller (psychologist)
Posted on April 15, 2020 1 Comment
Miller extended the trauma model to include all forms of child abuse, including those that were commonly accepted (such as spanking), which she called poisonous pedagogy, a non-literal translation of Katharina Rutschky‘s Schwarze Pädagogik (black or dark pedagogy/imprinting).[5][23] Drawing upon the work of psychohistory, Miller analyzed writers Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and others to find links between their childhood traumas and the course and outcome of their lives.[24] […]
