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Alice MillerPsychoanalyst and writer Read more on livelib.ru: https://www.livelib.ru/author/23398
Date of Birth: 12.01.1923
Country:  France |
Content:
- Biography of Alice Miller
- Early Life
- Education and Career
- Personal Life
- Work and Contributions
- Later Life
Biography of Alice Miller
Alice Miller was a psychoanalyst and writer who gained recognition for her work on violence against children (physical, emotional, and sexual). She explored and described the influence of education on children and society as a whole.
Early Life
Alice Miller, born as Rostowski, was born in Poland into a middle-class Jewish family. She experienced World War II in Poland, and her parents managed to rescue her from the ghetto. She then lived under a false name in a Catholic family. Alice was able to sneak into the ghetto and bring food to her family, but she was unable to save her father. Only in the 1970s, when she began creating spontaneous drawings, did Alice begin to realize the horrors she lived through during those years.
Education and Career
In 1946, Miller emigrated to Switzerland. She studied psychology and sociology at the University of Basel, earning a doctorate in philosophy, psychology, and sociology in 1953. She then studied psychoanalysis in Zurich and started her practice in 1960.
Personal Life
In 1949, Alice married sociologist Andreas Miller. They had two children, Martin and Yulika, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1973.
Work and Contributions
For the next twenty years, Alice Miller worked as a psychoanalyst. However, after the publication of her first book, she never returned to psychoanalysis. Since 1973, her work focused on studying the impact of upbringing on the dynamics of violence in society.
In the late 1970s, she published her first books, including "The Drama of the Gifted Child" and "For Your Own Good." In 1979, she gave up psychoanalytic practice and continued her research on violence against children. Her last book, "The Body Never Lies," was published by Suhrkamp.
Later Life
From 2005, Alice Miller dedicated her time to responding to readers' letters and publishing them on her website, www.alice-miller.com, along with her interviews.
