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Alice Miller
Born
Alicija Englard

(1923-01-12)12 January 1923
Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
Died 14 April 2010(2010-04-14) (aged 87)
Known for Psychology, psychohistory, psychoanalysis, philosophy
Scientific career
Influences Mariella Mehr
Katharina Rutschky

Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010), was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.

Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.

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