June 3 2016 - Alice Miller contributed greatly to our modern world regarding Trauma Models of Mental Illness from early childhood. In my own career I have discovered the very same conclusions as her........ that both one own's family and by extensions the institutions these same mentally ill persons build, corporations, governments, society.... target, scapegoat, project onto their own children, their employees, other people groups and so on their own shadows,their own deadly sins, beginning once again the cycle of abuse, inter generational transmission of all psychopathologies, the ancient curse, parents devouring their own children and so on and so on. A tribute then to Alice Miller this morning................ One of "Truth Sayers" in the midst of our own family's blindness and ignorance, reduced to only malicious slanders, pretenders, phonies, habitual liars, master manipulators and fakes.
A Sample of some of her Straight Facts
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1. The newborn child is always innocent.
1. The newborn child is always innocent.
2. Each child needs among other things: care, protection, security,
warmth, skin contact, touching, caressing, and tenderness.
3. These needs are seldom sufficiently fulfilled; in fact, they are
often exploited by adults for their own ends (trauma of child
abuse).
4. Child abuse has lifelong effects.
5. Society takes the side of the adult and blames the child for what
has been done to him or her.
6. The victimization of the child has historically been denied and
is still being denied, even today.
7. This denial has made it possible for society to ignore the
devastating effects of the victimization of the child for such a
long time.
8. The child, when betrayed by society, has no choice but to repress
the trauma and to idealize the abuser.
9. Repression leads to neuroses, psychoses, psychosomatic disorders,
and delinquency.
10. In neuroses, the child's needs are repressed and/or denied;
instead, feelings of guilt are experienced.
11. In psychoses, the mistreatment is transformed into a disguised
illusory version (madness).
12. In psychosomatic disorders, the pain of mistreatment is felt but
the actual origins are concealed.
13. In delinquency, the confusion, seduction, and mistreatment of
childhood are acted out again and again.
14. The therapeutic process can be successful only if it is based on
uncovering the truth about the patient's childhood instead of
denying that reality.
15. The psychoanalytic theory of "infantile sexuality" actually
protects the parent and reinforces society's blindness.
16. Fantasies always serve to conceal or minimize unbearable
childhood reality for the sake of the child's survival; therefore,
the so-called invented trauma is a less harmful version of the real,
repressed one.
17. The fantasies expressed in literature, art, fairy tales, and
dreams often unconsciously convey early childhood experiences in a
symbolic way.
18. This symbolic testimony is tolerated in our culture thanks to
society's chronic ignorance of the truth concerning childhood; if
the import of these fantasies were understood, they would be
rejected.
19. A past crime cannot be undone by our understanding of the
perpetrator's blindness and unfulfilled needs.
20. New crimes, however, can be prevented, if the victims begin to
see and be aware of what has been done to them.
21. Therefore, the reports of victims will be able to bring about
more awareness, consciousness, and sense of responsibility in
society at large.
© Alice Miller
