Alice Miller - The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

Alice Millers arguments are lucid, closely reasoned, and utterly convincing.

Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Alice Miller makes chillingly clear to the many what has been recognized only by the few: the extraordinary pain and psychological suffering inflicted on children under the guise of conventional childrearing.

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are

In her brilliant book, Alice Miller uses famous peoples lives, like Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, to teach us all a concept that is common in all of our livesthat unhealed trauma creates illness. I loved this book.

Mona Lisa Schulz, author of The New Feminine Brain and Awakening Intuition

As Alice Miller knows and makes so clear, the body remembers all the pain and suffering of childhood and exposes the abuses of childhood through physical symptoms in adolescence and adulthood, which she explores in this book. Readers will find much in this book that resonates with their own experiences and will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice Miller.

Philip Greven, professor emeritus, Rutgers University, and author of Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse

On her life journey of research and writing, Alice Miller has gained great inner freedom and strength. In The Body Never Lies , she courageously questions traditional morality and inspires us to face the often life-long pain that children suffer through their parents. Her profound insights into this vital relationship create a truthful vision of man and his coercion to be destructive and self-destructive.

Barbara Rodgers, author of Screams from Childhood

Few authors have championed the cause of the wounded child in all of us as Alice Miller has. In her latest masterpiece, The Body Never Lies , Millers prose is, as ever, fearless and refreshingly direct. Miller breaks new ground as she tackles the most toxic cultural assumptions head-on, seeking to undo centuries of damage done to children by the most pervasive and most insidious of religious dogma. This bookpoints the way to healing and greater love through uncompromising emotional honesty.[I]t is essential for counselors and psychotherapists who wish to cultivate their capacity for true empathy.

Robin Grille, psychologist, author of Parenting for a Peaceful World

Alice Millerfollows her former distinguished works with a fascinating inquiry into the dire consequences for adults (physical illness, neurosis, psychosis) of their unacknowledged suffering as children at the hands of their parents. She takes the taboo subject out of the dark where Biblical dogma insists, honor thy father and thy mother and spare the rod and spoil the child, and subjects it to the healing light of recognition and confrontation. The sooner this examination of accepted child-rearing practice becomes common knowledge, the sooner we can repair it to the benefit of children and the society they will create.

Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept

Dr. Miller writes with astonishing and penetrating truth.

Norm Lee, author of Of Moms and Moses