« If we want to avoid the unconscious rape of the child and its discrimination, the first thing to do and to become aware of it. Raising awareness of the fine and subtle forms of humiliation of a child is the only way to help us gain the respect for the child that the child needs from the first day of life in order to develop psychically. There are different ways to achieve this awareness: for example, observing situations where unknown children find themselves trying to put themselves in their place, and, above all, learning to show empathy for one's own destiny. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
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« ... the behaviour of drug addicts. Beings who, in their childhood, have had to successfully suppress their very intense feelings, often try to regain - at least for a brief moment - the lost intensity of 'lived experience, by means of drugs or alcohol `...`. »
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Alice Miller
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« She once said to me, "I find myself as ridiculous as if I had spoken to a wall and waited for him to answer me. Like a stupid kid. I asked myself, "Would you go back to the sight of a child who has to put his sentence in a wall, because he has no one else?" The desperate sobs that entered my question opened up to my patient access to a part of her true past, which had been marked by infinite loneliness. At the same time, she was finally freed from her torturers and destructive feelings of shame. »
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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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