Alice Miller: 100th Birthday on January 12, 2023

On January 12, 2023, Alice Miller would have celebrated her 100th birthday.

Miller, born in Poland in 1923, studied philosophy, psychology and sociology in Basel. After obtaining her doctorate, she trained as a psychoanalyst in Zurich and went on to work in the profession for twenty years. In 1980, she retired from treating patients and teaching in order to write. She published 13 books in which she familiarised a wider public with the results of her research on childhood trauma. She understood her search for the reality of childhood as a sharp contrast to psychoanalysis, which traditionally blamed the child and spared the parents. Her books on parental child abuse have been widely translated. Her sensational Das Drama des begabten Kindes (1979) became an international bestseller.

Alice Miller died on April 14, 2010, at the age of 87.