{"id":122,"date":"1986-01-01T08:26:42","date_gmt":"1986-01-01T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-09-12T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T07:27:52","slug":"pictures-of-a-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/pictures-of-a-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of a Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"colonne-droite\">\n<h1>Pictures of a Childhood<\/h1>\n<h2>Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986<br \/>\n<span class=\"soustitre\">New York, Penguin USA, new edition 1996 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"books\" src=\"\/images\/livres\/pictures.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Pictures of a Childhood&#8221;, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative activity which &#8220;somehow permits us to give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.&#8221; Having realized in the early seventies a lifelong desire to paint, Dr. Miller found an unfamiliar world emerging from her paintings: not the &#8220;nice&#8221; world of her childhood, to which she had always testified, but one of fear, despair and loneliness. Meditating on her spontaneously executed watercolors &#8211; sixty-six of which are reproduced here in full color &#8211; and their implications, Dr. Miller offers an analysis of the roots of creativity in the authentic self&#8217;s struggle for survival.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"colonne-gauche\">\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/from-rage-to-courage\/\">From Rage to Courage<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/free-from-lies\/\">Free From Lies<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/the-body-never-lies-2\/\">The Body Never Lies<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/the-truth-will-set-you-free\/\">The Truth Will Set You Free<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/paths-of-life-seven-scenarios\/\">Paths of Life &#8211; Seven Scenarios<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence\/\">Breaking Down the Wall of Silence<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/the-drama-of-the-gifted-child\/\">The Drama of the Gifted Child<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/banished-knowledge\/\">Banished Knowledge<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/the-untouched-key\/\">The Untouched Key<\/a><\/li><li class=\"current\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/pictures-of-a-childhood\/\">Pictures of a Childhood<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/thou-shalt-not-be-aware\/\">Thou Shalt Not Be Aware<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/for-your-own-good\/\">For Your Own Good<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/prisoners-of-childhood\/\">Prisoners of Childhood<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"separateur\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of a Childhood Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986 New York, Penguin USA, new edition 1996 In &#8220;Pictures of a Childhood&#8221;, Alice Miller explores the connection between childhood and that creative activity which &#8220;somehow permits us to give form to the chaos within and thereby master our anxiety.&#8221; Having realized in the early seventies a lifelong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alice-miller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}