Alice Miller Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: January 12, 1923 - April 12, 2010
Birthday: January 12
Death: April 12
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring
source: Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.115, Macmillan
topic: Mother, Children, Growing Up, Mistreated, Parenting Styles, Battered
