Alice Miller - Thou Shalt Not Be Aware (1991)

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An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Alice Miller

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Alice Miller

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively—because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

Alice Miller

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

Alice Miller