TY - JOUR T1 - Appendix JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 673 LP - 673 VL - 57 IS - 541 AU - Judith Burchardt Y1 - 2007/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/541/673.abstract N2 - Alice Miller is a psychotherapist. She is interested in the importance of emotions in understanding seemingly irrational behaviour. Her thesis is that our emotional life governs our behaviour. Seemingly irrational behaviour becomes explicable once one understands a person's emotional life.1Miller believes that our emotions are formed in early childhood. If we have happy childhoods then our emotions develop naturally and we behave in a rational way. However, if our childhoods have been unhappy, as a result of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, our emotional world is damaged. Emotionally damaged adults may harm themselves or … ER -