How is Emotional Blindness Created - Alice Miller

How is Emotional Blindness Created?, by Alice Miller: “How is Emotional Blindness Created? The newborn child is always innocent. Each child needs among other things: care, protection, security, warmth, skin contact, touching, caressing, and tenderness. These needs are seldom sufficiently fulfilled; in fact, they are often exploited by adults for their own ends (trauma of child abuse). Child abuse has lifelong effects. Society takes the side of the adult and blames the child for what has been done to him or her. The victimization of the child has historically been denied and is still being denied, even today. This denial has made it possible for society to ignore the devastating effects of the victimization of the child for such a long time. The child, when betrayed by society, has no choice but to repress the trauma and to idealize the abuser. Repression leads to neuroses