This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Another trend that welcomed Miller’s new ideas in the 1980s was a growing demand for self-improvement, which had already become a national pastime. Here people committed time to reflect, discuss, and read. This trend went beyond baby...
i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birthday of life and...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Alice Miller’s book, now known as The Drama of the Gifted Child, became an icon of the self-help and recovery book market. One reason is that it hit the market when new cultural trends were developing–and converging....
The power of narrative is incorporated into programs as diverse as international and collective conflict resolution through individual and private psychotherapy. Constructing a narrative can rebuild communities, families, and individual lives. It is an important element in restorative justice approaches. Arthur Frank’s book The Wounded Storyteller, suggests one way...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas This story of Alice Miller’s first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, ended last week (click here) as it hit the U.S. market with little fanfare. Even though it was about to change how a generation...
This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas Alice Miller’s first book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, radically changed how we approach trauma and therapy today. It announced a ground-breaking theory that upbringing is what causes mental illness. This idea has permeated how people...
Case Study in the Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas A quick snapshot from history offers clear ideas about what Alice Miller meant when she coined the phrase “enlightened listeners” in the 1980s. Miller’s experience as a Jew during Nazi-occupied Poland is a first step in...
Night is an enduring survivor testimony about suffering and evil during the Holocaust. It exemplifies the impact a single listener—such as you—can have on a survivor who holds an untold story in silence, close to a broken and hidden heart. Teresa Pitt Green Elie Wiesel first published his book,...
It can feel almost impossible to make peace with the death of those we love, especially sudden death and suicide. Sometimes a song that understands that difficult loss can help. Go Rest High on That Mountain is a song that carries great comfort to those who are grieving loss....
Abuse of Trust, edited by Alan Hebert, is a compilation of stories collected out of the desire “to bring hope and healing to other victims, these men and women—survivors as well as their community of family and friends—come together to speak out about their abuse and betrayal by Catholic...
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