Alice Miller, born as Alicija Englard[1][verification needed] (12 January 1923 – 14 April 2010), was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.

Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child[2] caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981.[3] Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential.[4] In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.[5]