Quotes by : Alice Miller

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and....

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness:....

Narcissistic cathexis of the child by the mother does not exclude emotional devotion. On the contrary,....

The public forum is not, of course, the most helpful place to conduct a profitable confrontation with....

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more....

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered....

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined....

Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected....

Today it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different values.....

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden what is forbidden is to write about it.