Alice Miller Quotes About Psychology

Quotes about: Psychology

• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

• Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.

  Alice Miller

  Philosophy, Self, Expression

• 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

  Love, Respect, Children

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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