Alice Miller (psychologist)

Alice Miller
Alice Miller
Born
Alicja Englard

(1923-01-12)12 January 1923
Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
Died14 April 2010(2010-04-14) (aged 87)
Saint-Rémy de Provence, France
Known forPsychology, psychohistory, psychoanalysis, philosophy

Alice Miller (born Alicja Englard[1][verification needed]; 12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.

Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child[2] caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981.[3] Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential.[4] In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.[5]

  1. ^ Miller 2013, p. 26.
  2. ^ "The Drama of the Gifted Child". Alice-Miller.com. January 1997.
  3. ^ William Grimes (26 April 2010). "Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87; Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts". The New York Times (Obituary).
  4. ^ Sue Cowan-Jenssen (31 May 2010). "Alice Miller | Psychoanalyst who wrote The Drama of the Gifted Child". The Guardian (Obituary).
  5. ^ Note: In For Your Own Good, Alice Miller herself credits Katharina Rutschky and her 1977 work Schwarze Pädagogik as the source of inspiration to consider the concept of poisonous pedagogy, which is considered as a translation of Rutschky's original term Schwarze Pädagogik (literally "black pedagogy"). Source: Zornado, Joseph L. (2001). Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 0-8153-3524-5. In the Spanish translations of Miller's books, Schwarze Pädagogik is translated literally.