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“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique his...”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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“Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, igno...”
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“This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people who have to pay for the smallest things in life with their very substance and their spinal cord....”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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“Narcissistic cathexis of the child by the mother does not exclude emotional devotion. On the contrary, she loves the child as her self-object, excessively, though not in the manner that he needs, a...”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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“Today it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different values. Therefore it is necessary today for the individual to find support within himself. . . This st...”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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“Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chance when he injured his head and gold instead of blood flowed out. They then began to look after hi...”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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