This continues The Healing Voices Series on Alice Miller: Icon & Ideas One of the most dynamic social trends which embraced the ideas found in The Drama of the Gifted Child and all other Alice Miller books was the surging membership in 12 Step programs. The lessons these programs...
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...
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....
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...
One of the best ways to overcome fear is to get informed, but just try to find information without high-drama news covering the battle of Science vs. COVID-19 that doesn’t feed our worse fears! There’s another way to find hope in this historic crisis: history. Reading about historical pandemics...
Msgr Stephen J. Rossetti, PhD, DMin A New Phenomenon? It seems to many that the issue of child sexual abuse is a new one. Decades ago it was rarely in the public eye. There were no mandatory reporting laws and little public awareness of this terrible tragedy. Those who...
Jennifer Samartano There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. (Nelson Mandela, May 8, 1995) Recently, I walked into an event that was addressing the issue of child sexual abuse. What I remember the most from that event...
Presenting: The Global, Universal Argument for a Safe Environment for Little Ones and the Vulnerable In Three Words SANCTITY OF LIFE Teresa Morris Kettelkamp When I worked in Rome for the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the Commission received permission from the Holy Father to have Episcopal Conferences...