Posted by slugdoo on August 12, 2007, at 16:49:35
I don't know much about her except she had a best selling book, The Gifted Child. But I got a book from the libray, I thought it was old, but it is only a couple years old called "The Body Never Lies".
Well I have only read a little bit, but I am like WOW, and WOW, and WOW, the stuff she says SO fits in with what I feel. From pretending the stuff didn't happen to survive , to dealing with people who belive we should always "Honor thy parents".
Then she said something along the lines that in order for a T to be the most effective and the best in child abuse cases, they almost have had to experience it themselves, to really know what it feels like. I am like wow, because I think my old T was brought up with a silver spoon and had great parents, so I think athough he has worked with abused children a lot, and it great with kids, and maybe he has heard everything, and maybe he has an idea of what it is like for that kind of survior, I still feel he doesn't really KNOW . Thank goodness most people don't.
Sometimes I wonder will I be a good T , with all the stuff that happened to me, but according to Alice Miller, surviving my own childhood abuse, will be an asset. I would add, as long as I work that stuff out, which she also says is important.
I can't wait to read more. I also like how she wrote about child abuse victims, the ones that rise above it, are very creative. She used philophers and poets as examples and did research on them. She talks about it in her book. When she brought up the fall of Sadam, then I knew the book was kinda new.
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