[x]
Oops - we couldn't find that review.
Alice Miller
author profile
born
January 12, 1923
gender
female
place of birth
Poland
about this author
Alice Miller is a psychologist and author, noted for her work on child abuse in its many forms, including physical abuse, emotional abuse and child sexual abuse. Miller studied and wrote about the effects of poisonous pedagogy upon children and lasting into adulthood, and the resulting effects on society as a whole. Miller migrated to Switzerland in 1946. She gained her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology in 1953 in Basel. She studied and practiced psychoanalysis for the next 20 years. After 1973, she developed her own ideas about child development and psychology. She published her first three books in the late 1970s. In 1979, she stopped practicing as a psychoanalyst. She has continued to write and lecture on psychological is...more
Sign up for Goodreads to pick your favorite quotes and books by Alice Miller.
avg rating: 4.02
| 1,016 ratings
| 158 reviews
| 25 distinct works
|
1 fan
More books by Alice Miller…
upcoming events
No scheduled events.
"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"
— Alice Miller
— Alice Miller
"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."
— Alice Miller
The body sticks to the facts."
— Alice Miller
tags:
psychology
0 people liked it
"Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies."
— Alice Miller (The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting)
— Alice Miller (The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting)
tags:
psychology
0 people liked it














