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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', Ph.D., ({{LifeData|birth=1923-01-12|birthplace=Piotrków Trybunalski|birthcountry=Poland|death=2010-04-14|deathplace=Saint-Rémy-de-Provence|deathcountry=France}})  
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1923-01-12|birthplace=Piotrków Trybunalski|birthcountry=Poland|death=2010-04-14|deathplace=Saint-Rémy-de-Provence|deathcountry=France}}) Alice Miller was born in Poland to Jewish parents. After [https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler/ Adolf Hitler] became the Chancellor of Germany, she removed to neutral Switzerland.<ref name="wikiart">{{URLwikipedia|Alice_Miller_(psychologist)|Alice Miller (psychologist)}}</ref>


Miller started to study at the [https://www.unibas.ch/en.html University of Basel] in 1946. Miller received her doctorate in philosophy, psychology, and sociology in 1953.<ref name="wikiart" />
The late Dr. Alice Miller was a preeminent child psychologist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
==Early life==
Alice Miller was born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotrk%C3%B3w_Trybunalski Piotrków Trybunalski], Poland to Jewish parents.  


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Young Alice Miller lived with her parents in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin Berlin], Germany until [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler] was appointed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany chancellor of Germany] in 1933. After that they were forced to return to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland Poland], where they went into hiding to avoid being sent into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto Warsaw ghetto].<ref name="wikiart">{{URLwikipedia|Alice_Miller_(psychologist)|Alice Miller (psychologist)}}</ref>
 
Miller relocated to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland Switzerland] in 1946 where she had been accepted into the [https://www.unibas.ch/en.html University of Basel].<ref name="wikiart" />
 
Miller started to study at the [https://www.unibas.ch/en.html University of Basel] in 1946. Miller received her doctorate in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy philosophy], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology psychology], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology sociology] in 1953.<ref name="wikiart" />
 
==Work==
Miller's work has been described in detail at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Work Wikipedia] and need not be repeated here.
===Views on infant circumcision===
Miller lived and worked in Europe where only boys born into Jewish and Muslim families are [[circumcised]], so protection of boys from [[circumcision]] was not a prominent part of her work, however she made her [[intactivist]] views very clear in a [https://scontent-hou1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/494050733_2454435724894167_6129074034294450157_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=KmczgZNxYZwQ7kNvwGaflIf&_nc_oc=AdpUeh5p2-KxtAbp7bM0-y5bjhznOT3ITAODNLOxG5f1rg6soguWbpUsvLXj9XkW_PlCBJ6Mrh8fp4d2YnOUWL4W&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.xx&_nc_gid=3upC8OUmHQ27ZWvrZZwh_w&_nc_ss=78289&oh=00_Af7B6kU-PYVFI-UpT3-FEkQSv8rWRymXExdYOuz1kcvDNw&oe=6A1E4D26 letter] to [[Marilyn Milos]], dated 14 January 1994.
<blockquote>
"The damage done by circumcision to infants and consequently to the later adults is an extremely important issue. It is still widely minimized because the effects are ignored by most people. … In all my books, I tried to explain that the earlier in life a harm is done, and the more its effects are denied by parents and society, the more a person will be damaged, not only physically but also psychically. If parents know of the child's suffering, they can help as enlightened witnesses by giving support and compassion. If they deny the reality of suffering, the children will deny it as well and later inflict the same pain on their own children ... out of pure ignorance."
</blockquote>
 
Later independent research has verified the accuracy of her claims.<ref>{{BoyleGJ GoldmanR SvobodaJS FernandezE 2002}}</ref>
 
===Selected quotes===
The editors at AZ Quotes have selected significant quotes from Dr. Miller's publications. Please see:


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===Articles===
The [https://www.naturalchild.org/ Natural Child Project] has collected an extensive list of [https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/alice_miller/ articles by Alice Miller].
 
===Books===
* {{REFbook
|last=Miller
|first=Alice
  |year=1981
  |title=Prisoners Of Childhood
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Childhood-Alice-Miller/dp/0465063470?s=books
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* {{REFbook
|last=Miller
|first=Alice
|year=1991
|title=The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Untouched-Key-Childhood-Creativity-Destructiveness/dp/0385267649?s=books
|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
|ISBN=10 0385267649
|accessdate=2026-05-25
  }}
  }}
* {{REFbook
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  |first=Alice
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  |year=1991
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  |title=Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
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  |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grou
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  |title=The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition
  |title=The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Gifted-Child-Search-Revised/dp/0465016901?s=books
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Gifted-Child-Search-Revised/dp/0465016901?s=books
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* {{REFbook
|last=Miller
|first=Alice
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|year=1998
|title=Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Thou-Shalt-Not-Be-Aware/dp/0374525439?s=books
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  |title=The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting  
  |title=The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting  
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Body-Never-Lies-Lingering-Parenting/dp/0393328635?s=books
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Body-Never-Lies-Lingering-Parenting/dp/0393328635?s=books
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  |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
  |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
  |ISBN=10 0393328635  
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  |accessdate=2026-05-25
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===Circumcision letter===
Dr. Miller sent this letter, dated 14 January 1994, to [[Marilyn Fayre Milos| Marilyn Milos]], R.N., who was then the executive director of [[NOCIRC]] in the [[United States]].
* {{REFweb
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|title=Letter to Marilyn Milos, R.N., of NOCIRC.
|last=Miller
|first=Alice
|author-link=Alice Miller
|publisher=Facebook
|format=PDF
|date=1994-01-14
|accessdate=2026-05-27
}}
==Video==
There are a very large number of videos available on YouTube about Alice Miller. See [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alice%20miller%20psychologist Alice Miller (psychologist)].
Here are a few selected videos:
===Alice Miller Interview 1988 : L'Origine du Mal dans l'Enfance===
<youtube>v=dlxj-V-ihTY&list=PLpDWYTxyxBjAqsm3OdUbrAyt9HmCSe-qc&index=1</youtube>
===Wie entsteht emotionale Blindheit? - Alice Miller - (engl. subs)===
<youtube>v=QEPnz57bkzo&list=PLpDWYTxyxBjAqsm3OdUbrAyt9HmCSe-qc&index=2</youtube>
===Interview with Alice Miller, November 1992 [interview]===
<youtube>v=q8qWKlUJ8M8&list=PLpDWYTxyxBjAqsm3OdUbrAyt9HmCSe-qc&index=4</youtube>
===Interview with psychologist Alice Miller's son, Martin Miller -- about his book on her life===
<youtube>v=768c6rukXTs&t=10s</youtube>
==Motion picture==
* [https://whosafraidofalicemiller.com/en#film  Who's Afraid of Alice Miller?]
==Death==
Alice Miller was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. She elected to end her life by assisted suicide at the age of 87, which occurred at her home in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-R%C3%A9my-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provence], France on 14 April 2010.<ref name="wikiart" /> <ref name="obit2010">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/31/alice-miller-obituary
|title=Alice Miller Obituary
|last=Cowan-Jenssen
|first=Sue
|publisher=The Guardian
|date=2010-05-31
|accessdate=2026-05-31
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)]]
* [[Anna Freud]]
* [[Carl Gustav Jung]]
* [[Child circumcision]]
* [[Circumcision and violence]]
* [[Gregory J. Boyle]]
* [[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]
* [[Pain]]
* [[Sigmund Freud]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma]]
{{LINKS}}
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|https://www.alice-miller.com/|2026-05-26}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suffer-the-children/202104/reflections-alice-miller
|title=Reflections on Alice Miller
|last=Wedge
|first=Marilyn
|publisher=Psychology Today
|date=2021-04-14
|accessdate=2026-05-27
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* {{REFweb
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|last=Anonymous
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/foreskin-erasure-banished-knowledge/
|title=“Banished Knowledge”: Alice Miller and the Blind Spot at the Heart of Circumcision
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2026-04-14
|accessdate=2026-05-25
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Latest revision as of 20:13, 31 May 2026

Alice Miller, Ph.D., (12 January 1923 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland – 14 April 2010 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France)

The late Dr. Alice Miller was a preeminent child psychologist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Early life

Alice Miller was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland to Jewish parents.

Young Alice Miller lived with her parents in Berlin, Germany until Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933. After that they were forced to return to Poland, where they went into hiding to avoid being sent into the Warsaw ghetto.[1]

Miller relocated to Switzerland in 1946 where she had been accepted into the University of Basel.[1]

Miller started to study at the University of Basel in 1946. Miller received her doctorate in philosophy, psychology, and sociology in 1953.[1]

Work

Miller's work has been described in detail at Wikipedia and need not be repeated here.

Views on infant circumcision

Miller lived and worked in Europe where only boys born into Jewish and Muslim families are circumcised, so protection of boys from circumcision was not a prominent part of her work, however she made her intactivist views very clear in a letter to Marilyn Milos, dated 14 January 1994.

"The damage done by circumcision to infants and consequently to the later adults is an extremely important issue. It is still widely minimized because the effects are ignored by most people. … In all my books, I tried to explain that the earlier in life a harm is done, and the more its effects are denied by parents and society, the more a person will be damaged, not only physically but also psychically. If parents know of the child's suffering, they can help as enlightened witnesses by giving support and compassion. If they deny the reality of suffering, the children will deny it as well and later inflict the same pain on their own children ... out of pure ignorance."

Later independent research has verified the accuracy of her claims.[2]

Selected quotes

The editors at AZ Quotes have selected significant quotes from Dr. Miller's publications. Please see:

Publications

Articles

The Natural Child Project has collected an extensive list of articles by Alice Miller.

Books

Circumcision letter

Dr. Miller sent this letter, dated 14 January 1994, to Marilyn Milos, R.N., who was then the executive director of NOCIRC in the United States.

Video

There are a very large number of videos available on YouTube about Alice Miller. See Alice Miller (psychologist).

Here are a few selected videos:

Alice Miller Interview 1988 : L'Origine du Mal dans l'Enfance

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Wie entsteht emotionale Blindheit? - Alice Miller - (engl. subs)

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Interview with Alice Miller, November 1992 [interview]

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Interview with psychologist Alice Miller's son, Martin Miller -- about his book on her life

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Motion picture

Death

Alice Miller was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. She elected to end her life by assisted suicide at the age of 87, which occurred at her home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France on 14 April 2010.[1] [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ a b c d REFweb Wikipedia article: Alice Miller (psychologist)
  2. ↑ REFjournal Boyle GJ, Goldman R, Svoboda JS, Fernandez E. Male Circumcision: Pain, Trauma and Psychosexual Sequelae. Journal of Health Psychology. 2002; 7(3): 329-43. DOI. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  3. ↑ REFweb Cowan-Jenssen, Sue (31 May 2010). Alice Miller Obituary, The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
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