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Alice Miller



Alice Miller, PhD, (1923–2010) was a highly influential Swiss psychologist noted for her work on child abuse and its effects upon society, as well as on the lives of individuals. She ultimately rejected psychoanalysis in response to what she felt were major blind spots in the field.

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The Roots of Violence Are Not Unknown - Audio - Alice Miller

Caring for the emotional needs of our children means more than giving them a happy childhood. It means to enable the brains of the future adults to function in a healthy, rational way, free from perversion and madness.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

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Alice Miller Obituary

Obituary. "Parents and psychotherapists owe Miller a huge debt. Ever alert to the abuse of power, she reminded us to question whether we do "know best" and, above all, never to humiliate those who depend on us. "

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Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87; Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts

Obituary. Alice Miller “could be said to be the missing link between Freud and Oprah, bringing news of the inner life, and especially the subtle hazards of emotional development, out of the cloistered offices of therapists and into a wider, user-friendly context."

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The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world’s leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body.

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