165 Quotes by Alice Miller

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

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

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

,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.