Bøker av Alice Miller

An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts.

Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller pleads for awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

'Rare and compelling in its compassion and its unassuming eloquence...her examples are so vivid and so ordinary they touch the hurt child in us all' New York Magazine

In this volume, the author draws on research on brain development to show how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial in children, leading to emotional blindness and mental barriers that cut off awareness and new ways of of acting. She offers ways to heal these psychic wounds.

Quando crianças, muitos de nós aprendemos a esconder nossos sentimentos e necessidades para corresponder às expectativas de nossos pais e, desse modo, garantir o ¿amor¿ deles. Segundo Alice Miller, esse dom de se adaptar é uma estratégia de sobrevivência diante dos abusos sofridos na infância, e tem um custo: a supressão do próprio eu. É com base nessa compreensão que a autora examina os efeitos duradouros dos traumas de infância, que se traduzem em sentimentos de vazio e alienação. Ilustrado com relatos de pacientes, trechos de diários pessoais e excertos literários, este livro ajuda o leitor a reconhecer as próprias emoções e necessidades e descobrir sua verdade interior. Esta nova edição inclui um posfácio escrito pela autora e, ainda, o texto ¿As raízes da violênciä, inédito em português, em que Miller faz um resumo das consequências trágicas da violência contra a criança.

What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.

Alice Miller, a prolific writer, has an easy way of exploring and explaining astrological topics. She brings each to life and makes each relatable. In this book, Alice takes the reader on a journey with and through Saturn. Known as the planet of limits and boundaries, Saturn provides structure, along with limits, and boundaries within which can be found a protector and an authority figure. You will find information about Saturn in each house and in each sign that can be used for natal chart interpretation as well as transits and other predictive techniques. Saturn in each sign is examined in terms of authority figures, protectors, personal space and boundaries, personal definitions, responsibility, maturity, authority and rights, and Saturn's Law. Alice invites you to tour the houses and zodiac with Saturn, always with growth on the horizon.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Summer 2018. In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles thecircularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. They dare you to visit,through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.

The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection by Alice Miller ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth.

The text connects adult creativity with childhood traumas and attempts to undermine our acceptance of repressive parental figures by reliving our childhood history. This work aims to answer such questions as why Hitler became a mass murderer and why Buster Keaton never smiled.

An astoundingly moving and perceptive work on how adults can finally overcome the traumas of their childhood.

A study of child abuse. Through her paintings, Alice Miller confronts the truth and pain of her own childhood. She meditates on her spontaneously executed watercolours, and offers an analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self's struggle for survival.