The unconscious will never pass up an opportunity to tell the truth. Just give it an unfinished sentence to complete and see what happens. I stumbled into such a situation when I asked my young Seminarian to imagine himself in my childhood and tell me what his mom would do. I was shocked. She wasn’t anything like my mom or my dad. She took out her rage on her son, unconsciously and with good intentions, to make him a good Christian and to be different from the man who abused her.
Posts Tagged ‘Alice Miller’
For Your Own Good: Child Abuse and Repressed Feelings
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, Liberal Catholic Church, Mental Health, Mentoring, Psychology, tagged Alice Miller, Feeling, Healing, Old Catholic Church, Wisdom on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Go Ask Alice about Hitler’s childhood
Posted in Psychology, Terroism, tagged Alice Miller, Grandmothers and Aunties, Wisdom on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Back in 1984 Alice Miller said, in the Preface to the American Edition of her book, For Your Own Good: Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence, two very important things: First “Hitler never had a single other human being in whom he could confide his true feelings; he was not only mistreated [...]
