Alice Miller: Moralization only takes children off the right track

For many parents, the books of Swiss psychotherapist Alice Miller were a real revelation, they were able to take a different look at their childhood and reconsider their views on parenting.

The author states that What is inherent in our childhood, in adult life determines our actions and actions.. Untreated childhood injuries lead to problems in a person’s personal and social life and can lead to mental illness.

Alice Miller was born in 1923 in Poland to a Jewish family. The girl had terrible trials and great luck: she was lucky to get out of the ghetto and until the end of World War II she took refuge in a Catholic family. After the war, she emigrated to Switzerland, where she received doctorates in philosophy, psychology and sociology.





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For twenty years, Alice Miller devoted to the work of a psychoanalyst, and since the 70s began to closely study the phenomenon of violence against children. Her book The Drama of a Gifted Child, dedicated to the study of childhood psychological trauma, became a world bestseller.



1. A tyrant is a traumatized child. He was beaten and humiliated by his parents. If a person has been allowed to feel free and strong since childhood, then there will be no need to humiliate others.

2. Adults think that the living soul of a child It is a danger to their power.

3. Exactly what parents are hiding, What matters most is the child.

4. Traumatized children will remain forever. They are attached to their parents and do not reach emotional maturity.

5. The human soul Its ability to regenerate from the ashes remains as long as the body breathes.

6. A person should have the right to Your own true feelings and their expression.

7. For most people, the idea that their parents didn't like them It's unbearable. The more evidence of dislike, the more people cling to the illusion that they were loved.

8. Most people find it easier to die. (literally or symbolically, through the killing of their senses) rather than feeling the helplessness they suffered as children again.

9. Requirements to “behave” They have nothing to do with effective therapy or with life itself. For many people, these attitudes block the path to freedom.

10. The body uses depression It is a way of protesting our betrayal of ourselves.

11. Moralization only leads children off the right path. It cuts off their path to self-knowledge. The body, after all, does not understand moral precepts.

12. Hypocrisy is a universal means of mastery Human souls, including pedagogy.

13. A liar cannot respect himself. He who does not respect himself does not respect others.

14. A parent’s anger is a consequence of their own problems. But the adult blames the child for them.

15. Complete submission to the will of teachers entails The willingness of an adult to fully submit to the political will of others.

16. Any education is harmful.

17. People who are taught to be silent suffer from consciously or, more often, unconsciously.

18. The attitude of parents to the child affects The child’s subsequent relationship to himself.



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19. Inability to feel their own suffering transferred in childhood, It can also lead to the suffering of others.

20. Bad behavior is one of the few ways. It is used by a child to punish an adult. published



P.S. And remember, just by changing your consciousness – together we change the world!

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