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Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
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It is the resentment of the past, we are told, that is making us ill. In those by now familiar groups in which addicts and their relations go into therapy together, the following belief is invariably expressed. Only when you have forgiven your parents for everything they did to you can you get well. Even if both your parents were alcoholic, even if they mistreated, confused, exploited, beat, and totally overloaded you, you must forgive.
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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.
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For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
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An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
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Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.
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Born:
January 12, 1923
Died:
April 14, 2010
(aged 87)
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Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard, was a Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst of Polish-Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages.
Known for:
The Body Never Lies (2005)
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware (1991)
Banished knowledge (1990)
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