Who is afraid of Alice Miller?

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I found a film online titled Who is Afraid of Alice Miller? I would say the same people who are Afraid of Sylvie Shene. Because they know we have lanterns and we can shine the light on them and expose them for the fraud that they are -- so they want to do anything in their power to discredit us --  people that have not resolved their own childhood repression --  they are hiding behind pretty seductive theories and intellectual knowledge only -- and they are not real or authentic -- and now they have grown into full-blown malignant narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, bad players, assholes, or what you like to call now these evil people. I have compassion for the little children they once were, but I have little compassion for the monstrous adults they have become. 

These people are trying to stand on Alice Miller’s head to make a name for themselves and make a buck.

In the introduction of the film Who is Afraid of Alice Miller, Martin Miller accuses his mother of telling him that he had become like his father! Well, he did -- that's what happens -- we become just like our childhood abusers -- when we don’t face our internalized childhood abusers and resolve our own childhood repression -- we become just like them... most people are shackled into the chains of repetitive compulsion. AND THIS IS WHY HISTORY ALWAYS KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF. 

The journalists interviewing these people are annoying, emphasizing their degrees and licenses as psychotherapists to give them credibility. 

Having a degree in psychology and a license to practice psychotherapy means nothing. What matters is to have the courage to resolve our own childhood repression, and you don’t get that in a university. Most people in our world lack courage and are a bunch of cowards, like the son of Alice Miller, who waited for his mother to die to try to stand on her head and make a name for himself. Just like a reviewer of his book wrote: 

"First of all, the fact that this writer was able to write a book using all her mother's techniques indicates very clearly that said techniques actually work.

I am really sorry to hear that this guy had such a difficult life with a traumatized mother who seemed to have lacked the ability to implement her theories with her own son. [Alice Miller could not have implemented her techniques with her own son -- because she developed her techniques later in life -- when her son was already an adult in his thirties. Once we reach adulthood, we are responsible for our own healing, and Alice Miller, with her books, gives us the enlightened information to guide us through our own healing.] That makes her a flawed and fallible human being, but that doesn't take away the merits of her brilliant writings.

Whatever this guy went through in his own childhood, I am really sorry to hear. But what he is choosing to do with his own pain is a coward and self-serving strategy to make a name for himself by trashing his mother, because he knows very well he doesn't even have 1% of the talent, the courage, the insight, the brilliance that Alice Miller had, both as a healer (since she didn’t like to be called a psychoanalyst) and as a writer." Read more in the link below:

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/these-are-most-likely-only-two.html?m=1

Most mental health professionals just memorize some good knowledge that they use to play mind games and manipulate their subjects.  Alice Miller found that psychoanalysis theory and practice actually hinder true liberation because it was just another form of what she called poisonous pedagogy. She was so convinced that psychoanalysis was dangerous that she resigned from the psychoanalytical associations she belonged to. 

"I have described the path to my new insights in Pictures of a Childhood (1986), The Untouched Key (1990), Banished Knowledge (1990), and Breaking Dawn the Wall of Silence (1991). In 1988, I officially broke away from psychoanalysis by resigning from the Swiss and the International psychoan­alytical associations. My first three books, originally pub­lished in Germany between 1979 and 1981, mark the beginning of this development, for it was only as I was writ­ing them that I began systematically to explore childhood, including my own. Thanks to my work on those books, to my spontaneous painting, and later to the exploration of my own childhood, I could see what, despite my critical attitude toward the drive theory, had remained concealed from me during the twenty years of my analytical practice. It was not easy to escape from the labyrinth of psychoanalysis. It took me fifteen years to accomplish this liberation process: from 1973, when spontaneous painting allowed me vaguely to sense the truth, until 1988, when I was finally able to artic­ulate it completely." Alice Miller

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2012/08/introduction-to-revised-edition-1995.html

Like I wrote in my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions, pages 129, 131, 132, “…I really want to reinforce the idea that so-called therapists and gurus only substitute one dangerous illusion for another. As Alice Miller writes, “What can happen when a doctor doesn’t stop at self-deception in his flight from pain, but deceives his patients, even founding dogmatic institutions in which further ‘helpers’ are recruited to a faith advertised as scientific ‘truth,’ can be catastrophic.”64 

… Since the beginning of human history, priests, teachers, gurus, psychics, doctors, philosophers, and psychologists have all duped people into thinking they could provide real assistance, when it was never possible because the healers were also victims of their own childhoods. Alice Miller saw the promise of psychotherapy to help people understand why they behave like helpless victims as adults and also to help them take responsibility for their actions. But she was disillusioned when she realized that practitioners couldn’t treat patients effectively as long as they failed to deal with their own repression. 

… It is the major flaw in most human therapies that they are themselves grounded in the fear of the parents and the repressed emotions of traumatic experiences. It’s why therapy so often doesn’t work, and it frustrated Alice Miller and encouraged her to find a new way. “Sometimes for decades on end, clients and analysts remain bogged down in a maze of half-baked concepts,”68 she writes. Whether or not a therapist has been freed of his or her own repression is what will determine the success or failure of a given therapy. Only Alice Miller offers a complete and total solution for our problems because she gets to the root of the matter and frees us from the pain, fear, and anger that, if left untreated, can lead us into a state of depression.”

I have no doubt that Alice Miller's son, Martin Miller, was the trigger for all of Alice Miller's books. And if he had not been born, we would not have had Alice Miller's enlightened books to help us liberate ourselves from the emotional prison of our own childhoods. And I would probably be dead NOW or still living in an emotional prison.  He is just like a double-edged sword.  

Read more in the link below:

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/martin-miller-son-of-alice-miller-is.html?m=1

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Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller? (And Why They Fear Sylvie Shene Too)

I watched Who is Afraid of Alice Miller?—a film that, like so much of the "mental health" industry, dances around the real issue: the repressed emotions of the wounded child. The answer to the title’s question? The same people who fear me.

Why? Because we carry lanterns. And light exposes frauds.

Those who haven’t resolved their own childhood repression hide behind pretty theories, intellectual jargon, and professional credentials. They’re not authentic. They’ve grown into full-blown narcissists, sociopaths, and emotional predators—malignant adults clinging to the very lies Alice Miller spent her life dismantling.

I have compassion for the abused children they once were. But I have none for the monsters they’ve become.

Martin Miller: A Case Study in Unhealed Repetition

The film’s introduction features Martin Miller accusing his mother of telling him he’d become like his father. She was right. That’s exactly what happens when we refuse to face our internalized abusers. Unresolved repression turns us into carbon copies of those who hurt us. This is why history repeats—why cycles of abuse persist.

The journalists fawn over Martin’s psychotherapy degrees, as if credentials magically confer wisdom. But a license means nothing. Courage means everything. Few have the guts to excavate their own pain—least of all those profiting from others’ suffering.

A reviewer of Martin’s book nailed it:

"The fact that he used Alice Miller’s techniques to write his own book proves her methods work. His trauma is real—but trashing his mother posthumously is cowardice. He knows he lacks 1% of her brilliance."

Alice couldn’t "fix" her adult son. Her insights came after his childhood. By then, the responsibility was his. Yet instead of doing his own emotional work, he chose to exploit her legacy. A perfect case of unhealed repetition.

Psychoanalysis: Poisonous Pedagogy in Disguise

Alice Miller saw through psychoanalysis early. It wasn’t liberation—it was another form of poisonous pedagogy, repackaging control as "therapy." She resigned from all psychoanalytic associations, recognizing the field’s fatal flaw: Most therapists are still prisoners of their own repression.

As I wrote in A Dance to Freedom:

"Therapists and gurus swap one illusion for another. Alice Miller realized practitioners couldn’t truly help patients until they faced their own buried pain. That’s why therapy often fails—it’s built on the same fear and denial it claims to treat."

For decades, clients and analysts wander mazes of half-baked concepts, never reaching the core: the unexpressed rage, grief, and terror of the child they abandoned.

Martin Miller: The Double-Edged Sword

Ironically, Martin was likely the catalyst for Alice’s work. Without his existence, would she have written those books? Would we have this roadmap to liberation?

He’s a paradox: the unhealed wound that birthed healing. A living testament to her theory—and its most glaring cautionary tale.

The Takeaway

The world fears Alice Miller—and truth-tellers like us—because we refuse to confuse knowledge with wisdom, credentials with courage. Real healing starts when we stop running from the child within.

The rest is noise.

Final Notes

• Stronger Opening: Now directly ties the film’s title to your own experience.

• Sharper Flow: Transitions between Martin, psychoanalysis, and your own writing are tighter.

• Punchier Quotes: Key lines hit harder.

• Ends with a Call to Clarity: No fluff—just the raw truth.

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Keep shining that lantern.