Alice Miller (psychologist)

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Alice Miller (psychologist) : biography

12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010

Alice Miller née Rostovski The Guardian, 2010-05-31. (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss psychologist of Polish origin, who is noted for her books on child abuse by their own parents, translated into several languages. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.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:

In the Spanish translations of Miller's books, Schwarze Pädagogik is translated literally. 

Life

Miller was born in Poland into a middle-class family of Jewish descent. The Guardian, 2010-05-31. As a young woman her parents had managed to smuggle her out of the Warsaw Ghetto and she had lived with a Catholic family under an assumed name. She survived World War II in Warsaw, losing her entire family. The Guardian, 2010-05-31. In 1946 she moved to Switzerland, where she had won a scholarship to the University of Basel]

3 May 2010]. In 1953 she gained her doctorate in philosophy, psychology and sociology. Between 1953 and 1960 Miller studied psychoanalysis and practiced it between 1960 and 1980 in Zürich. In 1980, after having worked as a psychoanalyst and an analyst trainer for 20 years, Miller “stopped practicing and teaching psychoanalysis in order to explore childhood systematically".Alice Miller: About the author. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1990 and later (from the book covers of the German paperbacks of ‘The Drama of the Gifted Child’,’ For your own Good’, ‘Images of a childhood’, ‘The Untouched Key’ and ‘Banished Knowledge’ (all reprints of the first paperback editions)) She became critical of both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Her first three books originated from research she took upon herself as a response to what she felt were major blind spots in her field. However, by the time her fourth book was published, she no longer believed that psychoanalysis was viable in any respect.