« The child has an innate need to be taken seriously and considered for what he is. "What it is" means: his feelings, his feelings and their expression, and this from the infant stage. »
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Alice Miller
The drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The drama of the gifted child
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« The second crucial element, on which one must focus one's efforts from the second or third year, is absolute obedience to the parents and those responsible, and the approval of everything they do. This obedience is so important that, in fact, all education is nothing but the learning of obedience. But this obedience is not easy to instill in the child. It is only natural that the mind wants to follow its own will, and if one has not done it properly in the first two years, it is difficult to achieve its goal afterwards. These early years also have the advantage that force and coercion can be used. Over time, children forget everything they went through in infancy. If we can take away their will, then they will never remember having one, and the intensity of the means that we have had to implement will not have any negative consequences. (NDR: A. Miller quotes here texting the pedagogical methods of the "great" pedagogue Schreber, whose first victim was the son, Patient of Freud.) »
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good. |
Alice Miller
It's for your own good.
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« Neverth this, the new scientific discoveries confirm what many therapists have learned from their own experience, namely that acting rationally and constructively requires not only intact thinking, but also that we have access to our authentic emotions. Technology will never be able to replace this function of our brain, and therefore we must finally take care of our emotional life. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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