Daily Inspiration Quote by Alice Miller

A line like this is less a gentle clarification than a boundary drawn with a thick marker. Alice Miller is refusing a label, but she is also refusing the entire moral economy that comes with it: the promise that you can excavate the past like a crime scene, recover the “real” memory, and emerge cured. “Today” matters. It signals evolution, maybe even penitence. Whatever her earlier proximity to trauma-recovery movements or therapeutic fashions, she wants the record updated in real time.

The phrase “identified with” is doing strategic work. Miller isn’t merely saying she wouldn’t practice regressive therapy; she’s distancing herself from an identity, a tribe, a brand. In the therapy world, being “identified” with a method can grant authority and market share, but it can also tether you to scandals and excesses. Regressive therapy has long been dogged by accusations of suggestibility and manufactured memory, especially in the late-20th-century battles over “recovered” abuse narratives. Her disavowal reads like a preemptive strike against being drafted into that controversy.

“Any kind” widens the moat. She’s not haggling over definitions or offering a “responsible” version; she’s rejecting the category itself. Subtext: the past is powerful, but the route back to it is ethically perilous, and the therapist’s desire to find an origin story can become its own form of coercion. In one clipped sentence, Miller asserts credibility through separation: trust my critique of harm, but don’t assume I endorse the therapeutic machinery that sometimes grows around it.