Alice Miller Quotes

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. - Alice Miller

When we go back, it's a different lifestyle. What a shock. - Alice Miller

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. - Alice Miller

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. - Alice Miller

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. - Alice Miller

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. - Alice Miller

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. - Alice Miller

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. - Alice Miller

The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences. - Alice Miller

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