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« Patients have no guarantee against unconscious manipulations by their therapist. And no therapist is permanently immune, certain that he will never perform any unconscious manipulation. However, if a patient realizes that he or she is being manipulated, he or she can always point it out to his therapist, or leave him if he remains blind and persists in believing himself to be infallible. »
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Alice Miller
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The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« Emotional knowledge of our past is not only our duty as parents, but also our duty as therapists. Only the painful b"vu and the acceptance of our own truth free us from the hope of finding, in spite of everything, these understanding and empathetic parents - to find them perhaps in our patient - and to succeed, through clever interpretations, to make them available to us. »
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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 often hear that psychotherapists suffer from a disorder in their emotional life. The ideas I outlined above wanted to highlight how this assertion can be supported by facts, the fruits of experience. The sensitivity of the psychotherapist, his capacity for intuition, his "antennas" particularly developed indicate that as a child he was used - if not abused - by beings in need. »
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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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