Alice Miller Quote

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.

Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth (ed. Penguin Press HC, The, 1991)