There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. Alice Miller benefitconfrontpast Change image and share on social
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. Alice Miller angerdenyface Change image and share on social
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller criticizefriendhold Change image and share on social
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller contemptdefensedespise Change image and share on social
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 characterchilddefend Change image and share on social
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. Alice Miller childcircumstanceconcern share on social
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 beatbeatingchild share on social
