Alice Miller Quote

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.


Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)


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...

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...

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...

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...