Alice Miller - Child Abuse and Mistreatment.
Once a child’s eyes are opened to the power game of child-rearing, there is hope that he or she will be free from the chains of “ poisonous pedagogy,” for this child will be able to remember what happened to him or her. When feelings are admitted into consciousness, the wall of silence disintegrates, and the truth can no longer being held back.
The Drama of the Gifted Child (pp1-67) The bonding (through skin and eye contact) between mother and baby after birth stimulates in both of them the feeling that they belong together, a feeling of oneness that ideally has been growing from the time of conception.
Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child: The search for the True Self) Page 14 “Several mechanisms can be recognized in the defense against early feelings of abandonment. In addition to simple denial, we usually find the exhausting struggle to fulfill the old, repressed, and by now often perverted needs with the help of symbols (cults, sexual perversions, groups of all kinds, alcohol, or.
Miller's remarkably convincing insights into parent-child relationships easily make the reader feel doomed as a person and guilty as a parent, but recognizing that parent-child relationships are symptomatic of all our relationships can open up Miller's otherwise dead-end analysis. Emphasis mine.
Contributions to Psychology Alice Miller was an icon of psychological thought, and she developed her material from both her professional and personal understandings. Her first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, was published in 1979 under the title Prisoners of Childhood.
In The Drama of a Gifted Child, Alice Miller presents her personal theory on what makes us yearn for that elusive feeling of love. Like most deep-seated emotions, this longing stems from events in our early youth, according to Miller.
The Trauma of a Gifted Child Whose Mother Was Alice Miller Martin Miller believes his mother, the late, world-famous psychologist Alice Miller, was a great theorist, subjected him to emotional neglect and abuse. Now he's written a book about it.