Interview given to Ms Noreen Taylor, The Times, London 1999 [interview]
Channel: Alice Miller Audio [English]
Date: 23/09/2015

Source: http://www.alice-miller.com/interviews_en.php?page=3
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Questions:
Is it possible to have some details of your own childhood? For instance, were you smacked as a child? Could you describe your background, parents' professions, and their relationship with you? When and how did you find the freedom to criticize their parenting skills? And did you find the courage to sit across from them and discuss your childhood?
Is the increase in rape, and in sexual attacks on young women, connected with certain modes of discipline men may have suffered in their own childhood?
Do you feel that society has become more compassionate and aware in the last ten years?
When did you first link the physical discipline of children with destructive adult behaviour?
The chief argument in favour of such discipline is usually based on the premise that it's the only way to teach naughty children to behave, especially those being cruel to others. Another could be that a tired mother, with a houseful of wilful children, has little alternative but to physically punish those who choose to ignore her verbal admonishments. Since reading your books I have asked various people how they feel about being smacked as children. Half believe it left no impression, while the other half believe smacking was appropriate to antisocial behaviour. What do you say about such opinions?
Do you have children? How did you discipline them?
Could you tell me about your interpretative paintings and how you became inspired by this medium of communication?
You write about the "helping witness": is there any example you could give in order to help illustrate your findings?
In public, if you see parents hitting their children, do you ever confront them?
Most British people would, I guess, believe that smacking their children is their own business, their own God-given right, and would have grave misgivings about government, legislation intruding into an area as sacrosanct as the home. Such state behaviour would be perceived as close to totalitarian. What is your opinion?

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