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Alice Miller

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born
in Lwow, Poland
January 12, 1923

died
April 14, 2010

gender
female

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genre
Parenting & Families, Health, Mind & Body, Social Sciences

influences
Lloyd Demause, Jean Liedloff


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Psychologist and world renowned author, who is noted for her books on child abuse, translated in several languages. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies, which she described in For Your Own Good .

Miller was born in Poland and as young woman lived in Warshaw where she survived World War II. In 1953 she gained her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology at University of Basel in Switzerland. For the next 20 years Miller studied and practiced psychoanalysis.

Her first three books originated from research she took upon herself as a response to what she felt were major blind spots in her field.

However, by the time her fourth book was published, she no longer believed...more


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Alice Miller's Books

Average rating: 4.06 · 6,262 ratings · 374 reviews · 17 distinct works · Similar authors
The Drama of the Gifted Chi...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 4,645 ratings — published 1979 — 39 editions
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For Your Own Good: Hidden C...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1980 — 18 editions
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The Body Never Lies: The Li...
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : S...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions
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The Untouched Key: Tracing ...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions
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The Truth Will Set You Free...
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1988 — 13 editions
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Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios
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Quotes by Alice Miller

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”
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“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies.
The body sticks to the facts.”
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“The 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.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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