Alice Miller Audio [english]

Interview given by Alice Miller to Borut Petrovic Jesenovec for the magazine ONA (Slovenia)Questions:How did you discover that the only function of ["Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother"] is in fact manipulation and subordination of the child?You go so far as to state that the fourth commandment causes physical ailments. How would you explain this link? Did it cause physical ailments in your case?Is love, seasoned with 'only' occasional 'educational' spanking, possible?Why is spanking always wrong?Many despicable acts are committed in the name of parental love. How would you define real parental love?You speak of child abuse in our cultures as A Forbidden Issue. Why is this so? What is needed to change this state of affairs?How can we direct hatred, rage and anger at the proper recipient (and not at ourselves or our partners)?One of the basic psychological truths is that persons emotionally deprived in childhood hope all their lives to receive the love denied to them. Why is it so hard to accept that w