I\'m just a self-help sort learning how to fix my issues. Just watched your video on youtube on critique of the profession. Very clear, very passionate, and very enlightening. Especially the bit on ageism and DSM diagnosis. I\'m glad I trusted my instinct about psychotherapists and continue to be cautious and picky. Thanks for your honesty and generosity. Power to you.

Very thought provoking films on schizophrenia. Have you ever thought of doing one on anxiety disorders? Freud couldn\'t solve the problem; CBT is even more of a psuedo science and it is accepted as the most prescribed method of treatment in the U.S. (sometimes the only prescribed method besides medications).

Thank you sooooo much Daniel! For going to Laponia, doing us meet this amazing group of healing humans and society. Gives lots of confident to know they are there and you exist. So honest documentary and really necessary for everyone, not only affected or medical support people. Humane race can improve themselves! even me 😉 I known about your documentary through a forum of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Already bought, thank you for sharing generously but I decided to do an economical response, gratitude for your work. You made me really happy spreading knowledge and human care in front and back of the camera. And nice soundtrack! In my personal case, after 18 years fighting for healing (still, I get colds too), looking up for the stigma, rebuilding your live after each crisis, why those hard chemist treatments?: in Spain, under a psychosis you can\'t say no to medication, if so the answer is \"you are in a hospital, you have to be under pharmaceutical treatment\", you have no rights as a citizen...and no sick leave pay. But, surprise! my psychiatrist decided to take out medication of me one year ago. By now I was finding pretty alone, is a rare case yet here, no real support if you are not on pills, even from therapists specialized. But step by step, this will be a better world for those little growing into it now! Here things are going crazy with politics, they want to criminalize psychiatric disorders. Really sad. Here is a document to give you an idea (sorry, only spanish) http://www.colectivosaludmental.org/ Hopefully one day will thank you personally in NY or maybe Barcelona, chatting by the seaside. (I can use my hands and my expression improves in english) 🙂 Best regards! Really!

great page, greetings

Dear Daniel, I am a MFT in San Diego and a doctoral student with the Taos Institute where Sheila McNamee is my advisor. I would appreciate an opportunity to be connected to you, to have a conversation with you, to get to know more about your work. I am inspired by your videos and watching them has galvanized something in me. I hold many private ideas/wonderings about mental health/illness that have a similar texture to what you say/write/share and I have been looking for ways to give them voice and purpose. I don\'t know what is possible for you right now as I am certain you are busy. I am just embarking on making sense of what this all is for me, so I am trusting that whenever it is that we connect it will be precisely the right time. Thank you for your work, for the hope, Andrea

thanks for all the messages!! i read them all and will reply to those with private questions backchannel!! THANKS AGAIN!!!!! daniel p.s. gustaf: martin miller\'s book is only available in german at this time. i think he\'s still working on getting a publishing deal to have it translated into english......

a year ago, thanks to a psychiatrist friend, Jacob discovered Seikkula and with Daniel. I kept looking, reading, looking around, making things to understand before barely understood my work as a psychologist in mental health. Now I feel better, calmer and my work with me, because I am learning that there are people with visions and understandings that I gratify me. My way is not easy but now I feel less alone. Thank you Daniel and all other. Gely. Spain

Hello all together! It is very nice that there is such a project, which operates successfully on such a long period. For two years, we are working on a project that has similar approaches. It is extremely difficult to establish in Germany something. It must be financed in some way. You can read on the website that we have already tried a lot. We are encouraged by your commendable work to read and see. You work with respect and love for your clients. Very impressively! It is nice that your project is financed by the state and is integrated into the psychiatric system. Also we make it to be so. We would love to get in touch with you or visit you. Sincerely yours Raimund ALBERT (Manager) http://www.lösungswege-pfalz.de/

I am not sure why I am writing here. I guess it\'s an effort to calm and quiet my mind an soul. I have been in therapy for awhile now. A journey I never intended to start really and had no idea where it would go. To be a grown woman, a wife, and a mother and face my demons of abuse, neglect, self destruction, and realize for the first time how cleanly I seperated myself from those events. I find I am at a place now where the rose colored glasses I have used for hindsight are cracked and no longer provide such a positive view and yet I remember that View so clearly. I am an intellectual being and I find myself searching for answers. Answers to questions I really don\'t want to ask. I stumbled into this site and for what it worth. I found a momentary solace in the fact that someone somewhere has devoted their life to helping us out of the shadows.

Hi Daniel, Thank you for doing what you do. As a parent of a son with a mental illness, sometimes it is so scary and feeling hopeless during this journey of recovery for our son. Some days are really hard to believe there is a chance of recovery and you fear the only outcome will be jail, homelessness or death. Looking at your videos on you tube have been a definate thread to hold onto in this darkness. You are making a difference for many of us. As a mother, I hope my son will be able to read your books someday and watch your videos and know there are people that understand and support him. Unfortunately, he is not there yet. My son has the diagnosis of schizophrenia. He is 29 yrs old tomorrow. Before this darkness overtook him, he had graduated college and was so compassionate and full of life. He studied Global Cultures in school and chose to work and volunteer on social justice issues and advocacy to help better the lifes of his fellow humans. The irony of his current situation is there is very little social structure to help him. He has been dealing with this illness for the past 3 almost 4 years. As a family we have learned alot. Like many families, we are shocked and disapointed at \" the system\" . The reality is there isn\'t any system to help our son. It has become a piece meal regiment we are trying to offer him. After the initial hospitalization at a well known university,which consisted of a 3 day hold and 7 additional days to start his medication, we met with the Doctor for 45 min and given the \" hopeless message\" and were sent on our way to figure it all out. This was the beginning of our education on this illness. We wondered how could such a devasting illness be given such minimum attention by the medical doctors. 10 days and off you go....and we found in several more hospitatlizations it was even less time... 3 - 6 days max...just enough to start the meds. The meds have not been an option for our son. He read up on the side effects and he already had a healthy distrust of big pharma and the billion dollar business before he got sick. Now3 years later, he is working with Dr Michael Lesser of Berkely Ca, an orthomolecular psychiatrist. It works some, but not enough. The convenetional psychiatrist recommended by the hospital actually refused to work with him unless he remained \" med compliant\". We are searching for all possible avenues to help him. We live in the Los Angeles area and we are trying to connect with a therapist that will work with him and accept where is at. I am sure you get many request for referrals and may not be able to accommodate the requests. If you do have any contacts or ideas on how to help us on this journey with our son, it would be appreciated. Again thank you for your dedication and support for those that need the most help.

Hi Daniel, I have been watching and listening to your youtube channel in recent months. I find the videos posted to be empathic to the child abuse to which I was subject. After listening to the audio version of \"The Drama of the Gifted Child\", I ordered the book from Amazon and am awaiting it\'s arrival. I am currently a college student living on my own, and I believe that I am in the depression phase of healing from the past traumas. I am finding myself in solitude often, and am noticing that I am very rigid about keeping things clean, and perfectly folding laundry and doing chores to the point where they become exhaustive and emotionally taxing. I find myself wanting to put that same exhaustive energy into my schoolwork. I don\'t know if this is some residue of the type of abuse I suffered. In the spirit of taking responsibility for my own healing, I feel that finishing my education is vital for financial independence from my taxing relations with my family. But I am very exhausted often, and was wondering if you had any insight into that. Pardon me if my question is vague. Thanks!

aloha. wondering if there is anyway to watch the film if i don\'t have a dvd player. i have a laptop that no longer comes with a dvd/cd drive...thoughts? mara j

Hello Daniel, Your words are very encouraging and I find it very exciting to hear someone say this out loud. The awareness that we are living out this survival life of comforrting ourselves in order to avoid the truth about our childhood experiences is a breath of fresh air and I really appreciate your personal touch as you educate and enlighten people to this difficult truth. Steve Coffey

Hi, thank you for your music and lyrics. I\'m so grateful to you that I posted your song against DSM diagnosis on my page. Keep up the good work! Cheers C.c.

dear Metta--- i\'ll reply backchannel to your email -- and see if i can help you. i do know icarus folks, and also am willing to donate films, but shipping costs a lot!! maybe we can work something out about shipping! all the best to you! daniel