Alice Miller (psychologist)
Alice Miller née Rostovski (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010) was a Polish psychologist and world renowned author, who is noted for her books on child abuse by their own parents, translated in several languages. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.
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