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Alice Miller

1923 - 2010

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Alice Miller (Swiss Standard German: [ˈmɪlər]; born Alicja 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 1979 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 the fields of child development, psychotherapy, and trauma. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Miller is the 61st most popular psychologist (up from 65th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 197th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Psychologist.

Alice Miller is most famous for her book, The Drama of the Gifted Child.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alice Miller ranks 61 out of 235Before her are Antonio Damasio, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Raymond Cattell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, and Stanley Milgram. After her are Fritz Perls, Leon Festinger, William Stern, Raymond Moody, Philip Zimbardo, and Bruno Bettelheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Alice Miller ranks 40Before her are Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Antoni Tàpies, Anne Baxter, Carroll Shelby, Masao Ono, and René Girard. After her are Dev Anand, Markus Wolf, Nizar Qabbani, Diana Douglas, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and Linda Christian. Among people deceased in 2010, Alice Miller ranks 34Before her are Harry Mulisch, Algirdas Brazauskas, Gennady Yanayev, Bruno Cremer, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Jean Simmons. After her are Dino De Laurentiis, Miep Gies, Vladimir Arnold, Joan Sutherland, Francisco Varallo, and Henryk Górecki.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alice Miller ranks 182 out of 1,694Before her are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860). After her are Robert Lewandowski (1988), Miroslav Klose (1978), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), and Casimir I the Restorer (1016).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

Among psychologists born in Poland, Alice Miller ranks 4Before her are Kurt Lewin (1890), Gustav Fechner (1801), and Solomon Asch (1907). After her are Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Helene Deutsch (1884), Kurt Goldstein (1878), and Abraham Brill (1874).