Alice Miller (psychologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alice Miller (psychologist)

Swiss psychologist (1923-2010)

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1923

Place of Birth: Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 14-Apr-2010

Profession: writer, psychologist, painter, sociologist

Nationality: Poland, Switzerland, France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010), was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages.
She was also a noted public intellectual. Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981.
Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential.
In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.