Dear Barbara, I have tonight been trying to get some resolve, further insight into some words that come to my head. . and though I’ve been working on it for years, today is the day I’ve tried to search for anything that may be similar in someone else. . your therapy writing “getting to know…
Category: English Contributions
A Christmas Gift to Be Burnt?
by Barbara Rogers Nothing reminded her of the solemn festivities of her childhood that had filled her with illusions about her family. Although she did not celebrate Christmas anymore, Maria enjoyed herself at a very different kind of Christmas party in Mexico. There were Mariachis singing, there was dancing and then a delicious meal with…
Hansel and Gretel, lost, deep in the forest
by Barbara Rogers How would you feel – lost, deep in the forest, when the sun is going down and it is getting dark? Would you feel like Hansel and Gretel? The darkness, the helplessness and hopelessness overwhelm you, and your loneliness, despair and fear are boundless. Usually, the trees are your favorite companions when…
Child Abuse—The Essential Reason for Murder
Dorothy O. Lewis has dedicated her life’s work to study why human beings murder. Her impressive, excellent book “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers” is a harrowing read. It is shocking to learn about the actual acts of murder. They are usually seen as nothing but completely senseless evil…
On My Side
Some people have commented to me that I am not free unless I forgive; unless I feel and understand my parents’ pain; that I will never be free from the tormentors of my childhood if I run away from them because I am an extension of my parents–and not of a different species than they….
Alice Miller’s true self would have supported her son
Alice Miller’s true self would have supported her son with this difficult book It is immensely painful to read Martin Miller’s book and to discern the repercussions of Nazi-Germany’s lunatic and murderous persecution on the lives of Alice Miller and her son. In consternation must I conceive the tragic self-denial, which was — through the…
Martin Miller’s book about his mother Alice
The Mask of the Children’s Rights Activist by Caroline Fetscher Outwardly, Alice Miller stood for the empathetic and non-violent education of children, thereby becoming a star of pedagogy. Her own son came to know a very different woman. The book, which he now has written at the age of 63, is not an accusation….
