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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Against Contempt Defense Despised Feelings Own Unwanted Weak Weapon

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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

Topics: Criticize Doing Friends Hold Painful Pleasure Safe Slightest Take Time Tongue Very You Your

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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

Topics: Beaten Children Give Humiliated Humiliation Impose Intimidated Intimidating Souls Those Turn Who Whose Will

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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Anger Deny Does Faces Forgiveness Genuine

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The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Abuse Any Careful Disclosure Every Experience Experiencing Facet Judging Only Original Process Resolved Results Therapeutic Traumatic Within

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We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Childhood Destructive People Produce Them Treating Way

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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Better Child Empathy Even Grows In Other Words Leads Learn Learning Listening Must Other Person Result Turn Which Words

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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

Topics: About Child Circumstance Concerned Cooks Cough Fact Feeling Grasp Helps Hidden His Homework Inner Inner World Kindly More Mother Never Same Some Than Too Wall Well Who World

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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.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Because Broken College Course Dare Democracy Ever Freedom Get Hearts Know Like Many Matter Never People Take You Your

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

~Alice Miller

Topics: Any Identified Kind Should Therapy Today

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: January 12th, 1923

Died: April 14th, 2010

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