Alice Miller (1923–2010)

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1. Alice Miller

   Author of The drama of the gifted child, The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness, The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

2. John Bradshaw

   Author of Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Bradshaw on the Family, Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth

3. Robert A. Johnson

   Author of She: Understanding Feminine Psychology, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth, We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

4. Rollo May

   Author of Love and Will, The Meaning of Anxiety, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

5. Harriet Lerner

   Author of The Dance of Anger, The Dance of Intimacy, The Dance of Deception

6. Karen Horney

   Author of Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Feminine Psychology (The Norton Library)

7. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Art of Loving, To Have or to Be?, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

8. Irvin D. Yalom

   Author of Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapy

9. James Hillman

   Author of The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, A Blue Fire

10. Anne Wilson Schaef

    Author of Womens Reality, Co-Dependence: Misunderstood -- Mistreated, The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss, and Perpetuate S

11. R. D. Laing

    Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics, The Politics of the Family

12. Eric Berne

    Author of Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

13. Carl R. Rogers

    Author of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, A Way of Being

14. Erik H. Erikson

    Author of Childhood and Society, Identity: Youth and Crisis

15. Peter D. Kramer

    Author of Listening to Prozac

16. Susan Forward

    Author of Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life, Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You, Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them : When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why

17. Fritz Perls

    Author of Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality

18. Charles L. Whitfield

    Author of Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

19. Virginia Satir

    Author of Peoplemaking, Conjoint Family Therapy

20. Judith Lewis Herman

    Author of Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror