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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

~Alice Miller

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Nobody is born evil.

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

~Alice Miller

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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.

~Alice Miller

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

~Alice Miller

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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

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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

~Alice Miller

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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

~Alice Miller

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: January 12th, 1923

Died: April 14th, 2010

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