The feeling child [interview]

Source: More Info: Interview with Alice Miller by Diane Connors for OMNI Publications International March 1987 Questions: When did you realize respect for the child would be your central focus? Why do some professionals deny what you’re saying? What were the provocative issues? Might this happen so early in the child’s development that he lacks words, understanding, or permission to express the pain? What do you mean by advocate? How do you deal with pain in the healing process? Do you think the child has no history, that a child is born into the world like a tabula rasa on which experience inscribes his or her character? In what ways does your style reflect these views? Why did you decide to become an author and lecturer? Do you have reactions from Kleinian analysts to your works? Do you think painting opened up a lot of feelings for you? In T