![]() Today Martin lives with his wife and his two dogs Queenie and Kid in Uster, near Zurich Switzerland. He spent the last years of his childhood at a Catholic boarding school. Martin was then put in a children’s home and did not return to his parents until he was five years old. ![]() For Martin, Irenka represents the mother he never had. He spent the first months of his life with his second cousin, Irenka, who was very young at the time. Immediately after he was born, he put in the care of relatives. After training to be a primary school teacher, Martin studied psychology and now works as a therapist. His father, Andrzej Miller, was a sociology professor and the general secretary of the Rektorenkonferenz der Schweizer Universitäten (The Rectors' Conference of Swiss Universities). His mother was Alice Miller, the world-famous child psychologist who rose to fame in the 1970s. Martin Miller is a psychotherapist who was born to two Polish war refugees in 1950. For if we do not, to put it in the words of Alice Miller, “… the devastating consequences of the traumatization of children will take their inevitable toll on society.” Protagonists He thus heeds the demands that his mother made in her role as a public figure: to break the vicious cycle of violence. Martin has the courage to face his childhood trauma. This film is an attempt to break down that wall. There were two Alice Millers, and between them was a wall. Perceiving her own son as the persecutor, the war continued within her. There, she unconsciously reenacted her repressed trauma. But in her personal life, she was a different person altogether. She was one of the first to openly address the subject of sexual abuse and she actively opposed physical child abuse, even writing letters on the subject to the Pope and to leading politicians. He is the emotional heir to his mother, who disassociated from her own war trauma with all her might, and at the same time, saw through and denounced the mechanisms of violence with almost prophetic vision. In Martin’s story, the historical and the personal are profoundly and uniquely interwoven. Coming to terms with that context and the knowledge that was kept from him, helps him resolve his transgenerational trauma. Martin was part of the war, even though he’d never experienced war himself. By gaining knowledge and developing an awareness of their parents’ unspoken experiences, children can understand their own feelings and unearth the root cause which has been shrouded in darkness. Martin sets off to discover and explore what his mother went through in the past. This film looks at one way of facing this inherited trauma. ![]() The more these parents disassociate from and repress their own war trauma in order to survive, the more severe this problem becomes. ![]() And it will surely affect all the children whose parents are coming to us today as traumatized war refugees. The descendants of perpetrators can be affected by this as well. These children grow into adults, never understanding what happened to them, nor being able to put a name to the pain they experience. Parents unconsciously pass on the fear and suffering caused by persecution to their children. In psychology, this is known as transgenerational legacy. And this is the case, even though they never even experienced the traumatic events themselves, having been born after the war ended. Book is awesome.ĮDIT: Changed "OP" in the TL DR to "wonderful person" for clarity.There is more and more evidence to show that the second generation, the descendants of genocide and war crime survivors, display extremely severe trauma symptoms. TL DR: Life was beating the shit out of me, almost gave up, a wonderful person suggested a book. I can't find the post, so I don't know who OP is, but thank you! So, so much! Then I found this book and thought, "What the hell?" This has changed my life. I felt like I was insignificant and my disappearance wouldn't change anything. I had never been that low, for that long. I feel like I can find the answer to what's been devouring my happiness for so long. I'm not going to mention how, because I don't want to give anyone else that is suffering ideas, but for the first time in my entire life, I feel hope. that this terrible, painful emptiness would ever go away. I didn't think that life would ever get better. The drama of the gifted child by Miller, Alice Ward, Ruth. I've felt empty and emotionally destitute for years, but never more than recently. I have never been at a lower point in my life.
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