Alice Miller has achieved recognition for her revolutionary
work on the causes and effects of child abuse - here she works
towards demolishing the wall of silence which surrounds the
sufferings of early childhood as they affect everyday life,
politics, the media, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An infant''s
trust and dependency on its parents, its longing to be loved and be
able to love in return, are boundless. To exploit this dependency,
to confuse a child''s longings and abuse its trust by pretending
that this is somehow good for it, Alice Miller condemns as a
criminal act, committed time and again out of ignorance and the
refusal to change. The essential first stage in this healing
process is feeling the truth of our experience. Only this, Alice
Miller writes, can enable us to recognise childhood events and
resolve their consequences so that we can lead a conscious,
responsible life. If we know and feel what happened to us then, we
will never wish to harm ourselves or others now.
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Alice Miller lives in France. For 20 or so years she taught
and practised psychoanalysis. Now, she questions the validity of
its theories. In 1988 she resigned from the International
Psychoanalytical Association and, in 1995, revised her bestselling
THE DRAMA OF BEING A CHILD.