On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:28:01 -0700, Beth Benoit wrote: >Some may be surprised to find that Alice Miller died in April >of this year. Her website (alice-miller.com) is still up, and >makes no mention, that I could find, of her death. There is >a great deal of information in the website about Miller's >unflagging contention that childhood physical abuse (the >description of which she paints with a pretty broad brush) causes >violence and problems in society and within a person.
While googling for materials on Miller I came across the NY Times obitary for her which can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/us/27miller.html Note her claim to have broken with psychoanalysis. >It occurs to me that her singlemindedness may be in the >same school as *The Courage to Heal* by Ellen Bass and >Laura Davis, which (now in its 3rd edition, I see) has >been accused of fomenting false memories about sexual >abuse. >From what I read by Alice Miller, I felt like it would resonate with the Bass & Davis position and supply support for a "repressed memory" account. The 4th edition of "Courage to Heal" is available on Amazon and one can search for Alice Miller within it: there are 5 hits and Miller's theory are first presented on page 76 under the subheading "The Body Remembers". There's a copy on books.google.com but that is of the first edition. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4488 or send a blank email to leave-4488-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
