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« "It was not the beautiful feelings, the pleasant feelings, that opened up new horizons for me, but those against which I defended myself the most; those who made me feel shabby, small, evil, helpless, confused, demanding, resentful or in disarray And above all sad and alone. But precisely after these experiences that I had run away for so long I became certain that I understood from within something of my life, something I could not have found in any book. » »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« We have discovered that we are no longer doomed to follow the old pattern (disappointment-repression of pain-depression), because we now have another way to deal with frustrations, namely to live our pain. This is the only way to open emotional access to our experience of yesteryear, that is to say to the paties up to the hithert hidden parts of our Self and our destiny. A patient reaching the final stage of his therapy described this state of affairs; »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« Depressive phases can sometimes last for weeks before the intense emotions of childhood burst. It's as if the depression had held them back. once you have experienced them, you feel alive again, until a new depressive phase heralds a new phenomenon. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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