Millerian Therapies International

25/08/2025

Ai genitori che credono di avere il diritto di essere amati dai figli a prescindere.

22/05/2025

The causes and the consequences of the idealisation of the mother.

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19/04/2024

2024 and we are still discussing of whether or not the same behaviour that is a crime against an adult may be a crime against a child too. Children are still treated as B-citizens even in so-called first-world countries.

13/04/2024

Excerpt from the chapter "Alice Miller on family, power and truth", Published in D. Morgan (ed) A Deeper Cut, Phoenix.

10/04/2024

In “Pictures of a Childhood”, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative activity which “somehow permits us to give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.” Having realised in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr. Miller found an unfamiliar world emerging from her paintings: not the “nice” world of her childhood, to which she had always testified, but one of fear, despair and loneliness. Meditating on her spontaneously executed watercolors – sixty-six of which are reproduced here in full color – and their implications, Dr. Miller offers an analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self’s struggle for survival. - Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986, New York, Penguin USA, 1996 edition

20/03/2024

You can read the whole chapter here: https://www.academia.edu/31075342/Alice_Miller_on_family_power_and_truth

08/03/2024

More in the chapter called "Alice Miller on family, power and truth" in the book "A Deeper Cut: Further Explorations of the Unconscious in Social and Political Life (The Political Mind)" edited by psychoanalyst D. Morgan, which you can buy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deeper-Cut-Explorations-Unconscious-Political/dp/1912691191

01/03/2024

When I was about 6 years old I used to have a recurring dream: my mom and my dad holding me by my hand one on each side would take me down a dark slope into a dungeon where they would kill children forever; it wasn't a one-off death, it was an ongoing death. Alice Miller talked about so-called 'death experience' in several of her books, including The Drama of the Gifted Child. After so many decades of confusion and ignorance about the link between childhood trauma and personality disorders, it is refreshing and heartwarming to see that it all fits nicely together into one and the same construct. A glimmer of hope for all those like myself who suffered the same fate: thanks to enlightened people like Tim Fletcher, it is now curable.

Complex Trauma - when a child is in an ongoing environment of danger or where their needs are not met - requires the child to adapt. They hope it will result...

24/02/2024

You can read the whole article here... https://www.academia.edu/31075342/Alice_Miller_on_family_power_and_truth

13/02/2024

Who is right and who is wrong: Alice or Martin?
How can Alice Miller have done the opposite of what she preached?

I read the blog post below, it looks like many others, and it represents exactly what a lot of peole feel about this debate. What do you think?

"I googled the book to find more material like it, and found out that after Mrs. Miller death, her son Martin apparently came forward on how his upbringing was the exact opposite of what his mother preached. It was horrifying to read about. He paints a picture of a controlling, viciously manipulative presence".

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