Retrospektywna perspektywa badań prowadzonych przez Alice Miller nad związkami czarnej pedagogiki i znaczeniem relacji rodzinnych dla kształtowania się postaw społecznych wspierających nazizm i faszyzm

A retrospective analysis of the conditions that influenced the emergence of Nazism and fascism indicates that one of the factors that fostered the emergence of both systems were specific family relationships and the upbringing currently referred to as black pedagogy. Alice Miller claimed that the full subordination of children to the will of adults, resulting from the use of mechanisms of black pedagogy, led to the subsequent political subordination, which was an element of social relations in the totalitarian system of the Third Reich. Miller noticed the roots of black pedagogy in the educational tendencies present in the German cultural circle as early as the 18th century, and she noticed ethnocentric conditions based on black pedagogy, also in the post-war period. The contemporary international legal standard for the protection of the subjectivity of the child should contribute to the creation of systemic and cultural barriers against black pedagogy and its consequences.

Duch, który cierpi. O roli cierpienia i rytuału w przeżywaniu kryzysów na przykładzie szkoły waldorfskiej

Tekst poświęcony jest roli rytuału i sztuki w pokonywaniu jednostkowego cierpienia i społecznych kryzysów. Choć niepopularny we współczesnej kulturze analgetyków, nastawionej na uzyskiwanie szybkich efektów, proces rytualny (jak pokazują za Turnerem Maria Mendel i Tomasz Szkudlarek), jest w swej istocie tożsamy z doświadczeniem kryzysu. Przechodzenie rytuałów ma więc potencjał transgresji, przekraczania sytuacji trudnych dla jednostek oraz społeczeństw. Omawiam to na przykładach przemian narracji porodowych oraz sposobów radzenia sobie z traumą przez Martina Millera, syna słynnej psychoterapeutki Alice Miller. Inną cechą współczesnej kultury jest odrzucenie sacrum, co pokazuję na przykładzie usuwania teozoficznych wątków z biografii Marii Montessori i marginalizowania szkół waldorfskich Rudolfa Steinera, które wyrastają z kryzysu zachodniej racjonalności. Odtwarzane i zapośredniczone przez sztukę rytuały, wykorzystywane są w szkołach waldorfskich w celach wychowawczych i rozwojowych i zgodnie powyższymi teoriami mogą mieć potencjał pokonywania kryzysów związanych z dojrzewaniem.

Causes and effects of violence against children according to Alice Miller

The paper aims to recall the most important works and theory of Alice Miller – the psychotherapist, who devoted her entire professional life to exposing violence hidden under the guise of upbringing. The study briefly introduces the biography of Alice Miller, which became available to readers only after her death, thanks to the book of her son. The next part discusses the views of Alice Miller regarding upbringing and the impact of children's experiences and suppressing feelings associated with them on violence in interpersonal relationships

The Authoritarian Personality and It's Enemies: Wilhelm Reich, Theodor W. Adorno, Alice Miller and Klaus Theweleit

The essay presents a reconstruction and critical interpretation of four theories of authoritarian personality related to analysis of fascism. The first theory origins from a book The "Mass Psychology of Fascism" by Wilhelm Reich, published already before the Second World War, the second theory comes from a famous "The Authoritarian Personality" by Theodor W. Adorno. The third was presented by Alice Miller in "For Your Own Good", and the fourth – by Klaus Theweleit in groundbreaking "Male Fantasies". Only one of them, by Miller, refers directly to pedagogy. Nevertheless, the essay presents all four publications in relation to upbringing. The essay raises following questions: what is authoritarian personality? Which elements of education support its development and which prevent it? The theories are presented in relation to each other. Some of their conclusions are consistent, but other present conflicting positions. The dialectical method applied by the author enables to see, among others, how Adorno’s theories are put upside down by Miller, as well as Theweleit, who develops Reich’s ideas. The reconstruction of the dialogue between presented theories enables to put new questions related to the role of authoritarian personality in contemporary times.

Kobiety w izraelskiej armii – trudy codzienności

W okresie poprzedzającym powstanie Izraela, a także w czasie Wojny o Niepodległość (pierwszej wojny arabsko-izraelskiej z 1948 r.), kobiety walczyły razem z mężczyznami w jednostkach o charakterze paramilitarnym. Kneset w 1949 r. uchwalił Ustawę o służbie obronnej. W tym dokumencie służba kobiet została ograniczona do służby nieliniowej. W artykule przedstawiono miejsce kobiet w izraelskiej armii, zasady poboru, zmiany związane ze sprawą Alice Miller (1995) i nowe wyzwania wynikające z obecności kobiet w jednostkach bojowych.

Trainee Section: Introduction

This edition of the journal sees the launch of a new regular trainee-orientated section. Over the course of a rolling five-year cycle we will be publishing a series of articles which will cover the ‘Emergency Presentations’, ‘The Top 20 Common Medical Presentations’, ‘Other Important Presentations’ and ‘Practical Procedures’ outlined in the curriculum for Acute Internal Medicine 2009. Articles will take the form of a problem-based review that uses a brief clinical case (real or fictional) and its development to illustrate the assessment, differential diagnosis and management of the common presentations to Acute Medicine. We hope these reviews will highlight recent evidence-based guidelines and provide readers with clinically useful ‘pearls and pitfalls’ from specialist experience that can be easily applied to future practice. Although many of these reviews will be commissioned directly by the editors of the journal, if you do have a particular interest in producing a review relating to a specific curriculum topic, please contact me at [email protected]. Similarly, I would welcome any early feedback relating to the content and format of this new journal section. This edition features reviews of the management of GI bleeding and paraplegia which I hope will be of interest to readers of various levels of seniority. Dr Joe Wileman has also produced a ‘Journal Watch’ section, which we plan to repeat in future editions (again contact me directly if you are interested in undertaking this for a future edition) and there is a ‘trainee update’ from Alice Miller.