A Swiss documentary titled Who is Afraid of Alice Miller
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Alice Miller
Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly in…
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culture · Swiss psychologist (1923–2010) · psychologist · sociologist · painter · essayist · psychotherapist · writer · also Alice Miller, Alice Miller (psychologist), Miller
Born 12 January 1923 · Died 14 April 2010 · Q236384
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2010· 3 entries
Died 2010-04-14.
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“These letters will stay as an important witness also after my death under my copyright”
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Answered hundreds of readers' letters on her website, where there are also published articles, flyers and interviews in three languages
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2005· 1 entry
Included similar analyses of Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Schiller, Rimbaud, Mishima, Proust and James Joyce
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1995· 1 entry
And re-published by Virago as The Drama of Being a Child
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1986· 1 entry
Was awarded the Janusz Korczak Literary Award for her book Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
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1985· 3 entries
Miller wrote about the research from her time as a psychoanalyst: "For twenty years I observed people denying their childhood traumas, idealising their parents and resisting the truth about their childhood by any means
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“For twenty years I observed people denying their childhood traumas, idealising their parents and resisting the truth about their childhood by any means.”
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Left Switzerland and moved to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Southern France
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1980· 1 entry
After having worked as a psychoanalyst and an analyst trainer for 20 years, Miller "stopped practicing and teaching psychoanalysis in order to explore childhood systematically
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1979· 1 entry
Contains a line that summarises her core view
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1953· 1 entry
Miller got her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology
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1949· 1 entry
Married Andreas, who was completing a doctorate in sociology
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1946· 1 entry
Miller (under her assumed name Alicja Rostowska) and Andrzej moved from Poland to Switzerland, where the couple had won scholarships to study at the University of Basel
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1941· 1 entry
Her father died of illness in the ghetto, months before all remaining inhabitants (including Miller's paternal grandparents) were liquidated to the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps
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1933· 1 entry
The family was forced to return to Piotrków Trybunalski
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-01-12.
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