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« ... the child's idealizing tendency obscures even the most serious abuse. There is no court, no prosecutor, no judgment, everything remains buried in the darkness of the past, and when the facts become known, they are called "benefits". If this is the case in the most egregious cases of physical abuse, how would psychological torture, in any case less visible and still much more discussed, be brought to light? »
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Alice Miller
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The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« Contempt is the weapon of the weak and the protection from feelings evoking his own history. And at the root of all contempt, of all discrimination, is the power exercised by the adult over the child, a power more or less conscious, uncontrolled, secret, and tolerated by society (except in cases of murder or serious bodily harm). The adult is free to do what he wants with his child's soul, he treats it as if it were his property. This is how a totalitarian state treats its citizens. »
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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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« "The world has not changed. How much horror and meanness around me! And I see them even more acutely than before. Yet, for the first time, I find life truly worth living. Maybe because I feel like, for the first time, I'm living my own life. And this is an exciting adventure. But I understand my thoughts of suicide better now, especially the ones I nurtured in my youth. Continuing seemed meaningless... in fact because, in a way, I was living a foreign life, which I did not want and which I was ready to destroy. » »
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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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