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Alice Miller

Born

in Lwow, Poland

January 12, 1923

Died

April 14, 2010

Website

http://www.alice-miller.com/en/home/

Genre

Psychology

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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 Warsaw 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 he ...more

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	The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self 4.06 avg rating — 23,532 ratings — published 1979 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller, Andrew Edwin Jenkins (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 3,202 ratings — published 2004 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence by Alice Miller, Hunter Hannum (Translator), Hildegarde Hannum (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,927 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self by Alice Miller, Andrew Edwin Jenkins (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child by Alice Miller, Hildegarde Hannum (Translator), Hunter Hannum (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 1981 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness by Alice Miller, Hunter Hannum (Translator), Hildegarde Hannum (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1988 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries by Alice Miller, Leila Vennewitz (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 1988 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller, Simon Worrall (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1991 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios by Alice Miller, Andrew Edwin Jenkins (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs by Alice Miller, Andrew Edwin Jenkins (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

tags: childhood-trauma, individual, truth

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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.”
― Alice Miller

tags: psychology

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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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