Alice Miller Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

  Alice Miller

  Past, Childhood, Suffering

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.19, Macmillan

• Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

  Alice Miller

  Real, Past, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.2, Basic Books

• There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

  Alice Miller

  Past, People, Therapy

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