Barneskjebner gir en fremstilling av hvordan det i personlighetsutviklingen til mennesker som ikke på noen måte er «syke», likevel ofte er en stor følelsesfattigdom, eller sterke avvergemekanismer mot de dypeste og mest ekte følelsene i en selv. Disse problemene hos effektive og velfungerende mennesker beskriver Alice Miller. Hun går tilbake i tid og peker på at årsaken kan være «narsissistiske forstyrrelser». Barnets sterke behov for full og hel anerkjennelse er ikke blitt imøtekommet på riktig måte, eller har ikke hatt skikkelige vilkår. Miller beskriver sammenhenger mellom slike tidlige forstyrrelser og den senere utvikling. Barneskjebner utkom første gang på norsk i 1980, og siden den gang blitt trykket i flere opplag. Til den norske utgaven har Svein Haugsgjerd skrevet en innledning.

Overalt finner vi en tendens til så snart som mulig å kvitte oss med det barnslige,for å bli vesener som har gjort seg fortjent til respekt. Siden forfølger vi det samme hos barna våre,og kaller det "oppdragelse".

Miller peker på forbløffende sammenhenger i store kunstneres barndom: Nietzsche, Picasso, Kollwitz, Buster og Keaton. Biografer har tatt lett på opplevelser som må ha gjordt enormt inntrykk - og som kan gjenfinnes i kunstnernes verker. Illustrert med fotos og tegninger.

Et oppgjør med Freuds driftsteori, som anskueligjøres med utførlige tolkninger av Freuds berømte pasient Ulvemannen, en analyse av Kafkas verk, eksempler fra Flaubert og hendelser fra hennes egen analytiske praksis. Miller utgis i mange land og er blitt en bestselger i barnepsykologi.

The renowned Swiss psychoanalyst and author of The Drama of the Gifted Child and Prisoners of Childhood investigates the long-term consequences of childhood abuse on the body, drawing on patient experiences as well as the biographical stories of famous figures to demonstrate how negative elements from a childhood can manifest into adult illness. Reprint.

Denne nye boken, som er den fjerde boken på norsk av den kjente sveitsiske psykoanalytikeren, følger opp teamet om overgrep og forræderi mot barn ved å drøfte forestillingene om det onde: At det er ondt i seg selv, og ikke en del av og en forutsetning for det gode.

Examines the connection of childhood traumas with both adult creativity and destructiveness

Den kendte psykoterapeut Alice Miller beskæftiger sig med årsagerne til traumer i barndommen og med forebyggelsen af dem. Hun beskriver følgerne af fortrængning og de muligheder, der findes for at blive befriet for tidligt opståede traumer. (Bogen er kommet i senere oplag og udgaver, men uden ændringer i forhold til første udgave). Bogens bagside: "En fremragende ny fortolkning og gennemtænkning af narcissisme-begrebet ..." Finn Abrahamowitz, Information "Millers bog er spændende, fordi den giver en usædvanlig og levende beskrivelse af, hvad der sker i det lukkede rum under den klassiske psykoanalyse." Lone Spanheimer, Politiken "Påstanden i denne bog er, at der er intet et menneske skjuler så grundigt, så længe og så dybt som sit sande selv ... For de mennesker, som har en dunkel fornemmelse af, at de måske går gennem livet med brandsår fra barndommen ... kan bogen åbne nye perspektiver og måske give en lidt dybere indsigt i eget sjæleliv." Svend Heinild

Since the landmark publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, no one has been more influential than Alice Miller in empowering adults whose lives were maimed emotionally and physically during childhood. Now Dr. Miller goes even further, presenting groundbreaking theories that enhance communication between therapist and patient and enable adults to express powerful emotions that have been trapped for years. Practical and perceptive, Miller's work explains what we can expect from therapy, how we can identify the causes of our own pain, and why subconscious pain, unaddressed for decades, manifests itself later as depression, self-mutilation, primal inadequacy, and chronic loneliness. Containing searing excerpts from "The Diary of a Mother," in which a mother learns how to communicate honestly with both herself and her daughter, as well as a trove of Miller's own moving answers to her thousands of readers, Free from Lies is the culmination of a life devoted to healing others.

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer,and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb, Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived." But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.

Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Summer 2018. Is nowhere a place we canget closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles thecircularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures.These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices,searching for the word's version of music's home key. They dare you to visit,through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.

Explores case histories, works of literature, and psychatric writings to bring attention to the effects of child abuse

More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and her book soon became a backlist best seller.In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller uses vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial, which leads in turn to emotional blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations- a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject.

The renowned childhood researcher, psychotherapist, and best-selling author Alice Miller has received, throughout her long and distinguished career, countless personal letters from readers all over the world. In From Rage to Courage, Dr. Miller has assembled the most recent, producing an insightful work that illuminates the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. Whether exploring the connection between repressed anger and physical illnesses like cancer, the reasons why many survivors of abuse turn to drugs or crime, or the cycle that condemns generations of families to cruelty in childhood, Dr. Miller's answers are sensitive, honest, and supported by decades of experience. Unafraid of controversy, she discusses much-debated theories such as the impact of religious belief on the cultural traditions of child abuse and the therapeutic community's denial of the truth and dependency on antidepressants. A practical guide to Dr. Miller's unique therapeutic concept, this work once again affirms the healing and liberating power of retrieved emotions.

Since the landmark publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, no one has been more influential than Alice Miller in empowering adults whose lives were maimed emotionally and physically as children. Now Dr. Miller goes even further, presenting groundbreaking theories that enhance communication between therapist and patient and enable the adult to express powerful emotions that have been trapped for years. Practical and perceptive, Miller's work explains what we can expect from therapy, how we can identify the causes of our own pain, and why subconscious pain, unaddressed for decades, manifests itself later as depression, self-mutilation, primal inadequacy, and chronic loneliness. With its responses to readers' letters and powerful stories, Free from Lies is the culmination of a life devoted to healing others.