HEALING VERBAL NEGLECT The newly won capacity to accept his feelings frees the way for the patient’s long repressed needs and wishes . . . Among these is every human being’s central need to express himself – to show himself to the world as he really is – in word, in gesture, in behavior, in every genuine utterance from the baby’s cry to the artist’s creation. – Alice Miller If we have suffered prolonged verbal neglect in childhood, we may still be in need of the types of verbal nurturance described in the previous section. Some survivors are fortunate to have received this kind of nurturance
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