My therapeutic journey began in 1980 in Chicago, when I read Alice Miller’s book “For Your Own Good.” As I read it, I felt as if something that I had always known deep inside of me could connect with my conscious mind. Ever since, my inner child experienced and saw Alice Miller as being on…
Category: English Contributions
IFS – A liberating and empowering therapy approach
My Review of Richard Schwartz’s book “No Bad Parts”
“No Bad Parts” is a fascinating and inspiring book. Dick Schwartz shows how healing and liberating it can be to enter our inner world, and to lovingly care for the pain, the anguishes, and inner struggles that haunt us.
Alice Miller: War Trauma and Betrayal Trauma
Workshop presented by Barbara Rogers at the 2014 IFS Conference
Part 1 is about my relationship with Alice Miller, my therapeutic journey, and how her son Martin contacted me four years after my break with Alice in 2008.
This is the story of a friendship whose upsetting end taught me about war and genocide trauma…
Facing a Wall of Silence
My essay from the book: “Second Generation Voices” Edited by Naomi and Alan Berger, published by Syracuse University Press in 2001 by Barbara Rogers QUOTES: “They charge us with indifference toward the laws of humanity. This charge we take seriously. In our enterprise man was always more important than money. My whole education taught…
Escape from the fog of admiration
“Escape from the Fog of Admiration — Insights about the True Self”
A Response to Alice Miller by Barbara Rogers
You could not have produced more powerful proof for the validity of the IFS (Internal Family System) therapy concept, Alice, than with your irrational public attack against the our.childhood.international forum, against me, its moderator…
Martin Miller’s Important Contribution to the History and Development of Psychotherapy
My review of Martin Miller’s book “The True Drama of the Gifted Child”
Martin Miller has made a very long and excruciating journey to uncover the truth about his family’s past having to face how horribly his parents lied to him and betrayed him. His book “The True Drama of the Gifted Child: The Phantom…
The War against the Child’s and Victim’s Credibility and Truth
or “The Lie of the false memory syndrome” “If people who dare to speak about sexual abuse are attacked by those whom they have relied on and trusted, is it any wonder that unawareness and silence are so common?” “Survivors of childhood sexual abuse and betrayal trauma have learned to cope by being disconnected internally…