Hi Daniel, are you coming to Melbourne, Australia this month? Cheers!

Just found your website having been reading Alice Miller for some time. Thank you.

Daniel, I am so glad to have been able to buy all four of your DVD\'s. You are doing good work and are a true inspiration. I am glad to have found your blog - I just read some of your writings about dreamwork and agree - I have done minimal dreamwork but find it fascinating. Dreams can be one way to deepen our understanding of ourselves. I have found miraculous physical and emotional healing through nutrition, supplementation, Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology, and feel truly blessed in that sense. It is something I want to share with the entire world, but unfortunately, there are those who just don\'t want to believe that if it isn\'t in the form of an FDA approved prescription, it can\'t possibly work. How frustrating!! Thanks again.

Hello Daniel, how are you? I am sorry,but my sister ordered the wrong DVD without german Subtitles,could she send you the DVD back? And trade it to a DVD with german Subtitles? It would be nice. The name of the DVD is \"Take these broken wings\". Greetings, Alex

Hey Daniel, I tried ordering the 4 DVDs from the DVD page but couldn\'t get the purchase to go through. Wanted to see if you were having problems with paypal or anything. I can also send a check. Lemme know what the best way is, thanks! j

Hi Daniel, i thank you for your work in looking for cures for mental illnes without any medications. My sister has been at the hospital for schyzofrenia, just 1 month ago. i\'m sure this desease has causes in the childhood, and not (only) in biological system of anyone of us. Hope science grows up in resolving mental illnes just with psychology! tahnk you.

Hi Daniel, your website and truth has had a profound impact on me. The other day my wife brought home the book \"The Body Never Lies\" by Alice Miller. I\'d never known of her before and upon looking her up online I came across your review of one of her books which is how I happened upon your website. Thank you for your courage to self heal and your transparency in your writings. This site has been hugely grounding and enlivening to my soul. The truth found here regarding the insidiousness of the parental dynamic makes sense to me on gut level and resonates in every way with my personal philosophy and life journey. The stance you take with regards to having children prior to fully healing is the exact reason I got a vasectomy prior to marrying my wife (though I wasn\'t fully aware at the time). Your the first voice of reason I\'ve heard that has made that decision of mine not seem so crazy afterall. Your also the first voice of reason that resonates with the truth of my soul that I\'ve always know to be true from the beginning but had been conditioned to deny because my very survival depended on it as a child. At 17 yrs of age I was involved in a form of chi gung, a kind of breathwork. I began to experience my true Self again but also began to prematurely awake to the traumas of my child within. It was overwhelming and I went through a nervous breakdown as a result. Because I was living at home with the perpetrators of the trauma, the twisted power plays and manipulation kicked into full gear. The pain of the trauma became a literal living hell to me that my parents took full advantage of to further their manipulative and sick agenda. They in essence made it very clear to me that my real Self was not welcome in the family and only the charade of denial and self hate would be adequate if I were to be welcome or accepted. It is so wild to me now to see the role I played in my family as the proverbial dumping ground. I was coerced into wearing a cloak of shame that perpetuated itself because it was the only way I knew to be. I\'m 37yrs old now and have gone through extensive psychotherapy and bodywork over the last 7yrs. I\'m on a healing journey but only because I\'ve learned it\'s ok to have permission to call bull shit on the cult of family; to grieve and process the pain of the deepest, most wounded parts of myself. Learning to feel acceptance and what real love actually is. The Spirit in me Is Unconditional Love! Your message, Daniel, has been a windfall for me because it deftly summarizes what my instincts and heart have been trying to tell me all along. I feel permission to feel more fully now in ways that just weren\'t being accessed before because of the limitations of therapy (and limitations of the therapist). Your message to \'go inside, take back what is yours, mourn and grieve over the evil that was done to you and alas deliverance will begin to unfold\' is the most damn refreshing thing my heart has taken hold of since my healing as an adult had started it\'s course. This tiny shift of pointing out the real root of all insecurity and realizing to what extent the motives of my parents were, has been a windfall for me. It\'s brought clarity of mind and continuity to my philosophy that had been, up until 6 days ago, still rather fractured and segmented, despite how far I thought I\'d come. My deepest appreciation and gratitude extends from my heart to you, brother.

Hi, I was wondering about something. Great work by the way with this site, espescially the psycological reasons to bag on this site, as soon as I saw the humor one I couldn\'t help but laugh X) anyway I stuck around because I thought it would be intringuing to take some of this advice. So about the dream analysis concept, will recording these dreams improve my focus in life, will it make me smarter as a person and open up more cognotive ablilities, I might not have considered buring all that emotion as I grew up and what not?

Dear Daniel I want to thank you very much for your helping me to heal through your writing and your videos. It so beautiful to see that there are so smart and honest people like you. I\'m older than you (I\'m 50) but I feel you\'re much wiser than me and i hope I can learn more from you. Sorry for my very simple English, I\'m Italian speaking.

Hi Daniel I included a link to our you tube channel on m site if thats ok , really its just films I find interesting, I heard your interview on madness radio ..which is excellent ..I\'m making a documentary about a bipolar rd trip across USA at the moment some clips of my work are through www.moonblue.org good luck joe

Oh Daniel, who are you and where did you come from. The wisdom you impart to others on your videos has been invaluable to me. I\'m on my journey from broken to enlightment right now (at 52 years old). I\'m probably entering stage 2 right now...the painful part. You have such a soothing way about you. Each and everything you talk about resonates with me. I will be definitely seeking out all of your works as I progress through my journey to wholeness. I also wanted to tell you that if you ever need some excellent research material, I believe the family I come from and the intensity of the childhood neglect that me and my 12 siblings suffered is a unique and exaggerrated version of all the issue you talk about. Now we are all middle aged and no one escaped the damage, but it manifests in many ways. My family is very broken....it\'s so sad. I\'m at a point right now where I\'m in the process of distancing myself from my mother and most of my siblings in order to protect myself from the on going abuse and hopefully to eventually find the enlightenment you speak of so eloquently. Thanks Daniel Mackler!

Hello Daniel, I am Hiroyuki Matsuda, who bought some copies of Open Dialogue from your website. I am teaching social work at a university in Osaka, Japan, When I visited US, Dan Fisher, one of the best friends of mine, let me know about Open Dialogue. I have been interested in it since that time. I was very glad to know that it has the subtitle in Japanese. I have one question. If I bought the DVD for public/educational use, would there be any condition that I should follow? I would like to share this video with more people. I am thinking that inviting consumers/survivors, professionals, and students and holding a screening event might be a good idea. The purpose is not for profit. Could you tell me the condition please?

Hidden4love 3/22/2013 9:36:13 AM I don\'t think your crazy Daniel 🙂 I\'m watching your \"Childhood Trauma and the Process of Healing\" i found somewhere on youtube 🙂 It\'s super helpful. I really wanna heal from my truama, i\'ve been having truama and panic attacks for 3 yrs now. only watched 13 mins, but i suppose in a nut shell how to heal is accept how we feel, accept the pain and let it go. ^^ Stefanie denz 3/20/2013 7:10:59 PM Hi Daniel I just read your article as I am a fan of Alice Miller, and found your words quite intriguing. I am a nartist on a residency in Berlin, and am struck by how little females are represented internationally in the art world, realizing I have been in denial. I believe this is becuase it is a world that relies greatly on influence, and projected value as opposed to other professions where a person male or female can systematically fulfill the requirements by following rules-the ladder of academia and what not. Maybe I am in denial here too, but there does seem to be more female representation in medicine, sciences politics etc. So when I read your observations I can not help but see that Alice\'s trauma is mutliplied by her being female, and this is not something she really addresses. Or? One of our prime needs is to belong. As a woman you belong automatically as secondary, ancillary, and to challenge this is to lose one\'s place in society. In my experience we need to be seen, responded to and we fulfill what is required so that we have response. Her letter to the pope clearly shows that this role is being played out. She remains as so many other women as a victim in her own mind, for indeed the reflection back of something else is not there. Cheers Stefanie. www.stefaniedenz.com Wendy 3/20/2013 12:59:45 PM Hi Daniel, it is awesome that you put this stuff out there. I\'ve been listening to your \'Childhood Trauma and The Process of Healing\' video, from 2011. It is so strengthening and helpful. What a life this is!! Bless you. Wendy Amy 3/18/2013 3:02:59 PM HI Daniel, I have been reading this site, and listening to your interviews and conversations on Amy Childs\' podcasts from a few years ago (just discovered these). I have been listening to Paul Levy, who wrote about Awakening in the Dream. As I have been listening, I keep thinking that, because you are doing similar work, and expressing similar things in your owns ways - if the two of you do not know each other, you might like to...thus, i introduce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kigmklazxPE Thank you for all of this good food for thought! M Reynolds 3/16/2013 7:30:46 PM Posts/comments individual write is sometimes more interesting and entertaining than the article that it is posted for. I had to inquire to the person who commented about the new Pope serving the poor: \"serve the poor: provide them with free birth control education and contraceptives. it\'ll be the gift that keeps on giving.\". I can\'t completely disagree with you. However, as a Catholic, gay, not the best childhood, but my parents did the best they could with what they knew, I would like to remain optimistic that Pope Francis will walk the talk - he already has. I do wonder why some couples or individuals, in some cases, have children - I say individuals because the other, whether female or male, is doing so for the purpose of sex and pleasure only - not caring one bit of the consequences of raising and taking care of a child(ren). From what I scanned on your website, your thoughts etc are very familiar to Iyanla Vanzant. MR Chicago, Illinois Bet 3/14/2013 3:15:42 PM Hello Daniel: I fell into a situation renting a room from strangers, and I feel the screaming, angry, loathing each other parents are affecting their 2 sons in a horrible way. The elder has so much rage toward his mother, he has begun to direct it at his younger smaller brother. Do I report this family to Child Welfare Services? I am moving out at the end of the month, do I wait until I am safely gone? I\'ve never been so conflicted, but your article helped me immensely. I know what I need to do... Claudia 3/8/2013 9:01:14 PM Hi Daniel! I just read you`re working on the translation of your documentaries, I would be interested in the Italian version, if you plan on having one. If not, I can help translating it! Take care! Claudia Maya 3/6/2013 7:24:04 AM Hi Daniel, just wanted to say thank you. bob zimmerman 3/2/2013 8:02:09 PM I have a daughter that was bullied in high school and in the last 7 years gained over 150lbs from antiphysic meds. Labled schiozophrenic. its been a nightmare. Thanks for your website. england_97 2/27/2013 5:26:53 AM Hi Daniel, As much as I love your work/essays - I have to say that I can\'t disagree more about your stance on meditation. As a child I was sexually abused for 3 years and went through a lot of psychical abuse from my parents in the form or beatings, and being locked up in an outdoor cellar. I have been through both psychotherapy and practiced vipassana meditation for the past 5 years. Although psychotherapy helped me a great deal... it failed to go to the root of the issue (which still lived deep in my psyche & body), after 2.5 years of psychotherapy I eventually took my 3rd 10-day Vipassana meditation course and ALL of the memories of my abuse finally came to the surface. It felt as though I was re-experiencing the entire thing. I\'ve read several articles since then about people with similar experiences. http://www.primals.org/articles/wright.html http://www.events.dhamma.org/presskit/2012-12/pauls-writings-en arjuna 2/26/2013 3:32:07 PM Hi Daniel, There is a lot on your website that I can relate to. Although personally I would not be as absolutist about some things as you are, I do think the absolutist view you take on things is a necessary part of the whole picture regarding trauma and the consequences of it. I take part however with your writing about dissociated people. Having suffered from dissociative problems myself, I can assure you that in no way this contributed to me feeling really safe or happy. In fact I found it so unbearable that I came close to ending my life because of it. I am not alone in this. If you look at the suffering that people with dissociative problems as severe as what was formerly known as Multiple Identity Disorder go through, as well as the suffering that people with milder forms of dissociative problems experience, you would know that dissociative problems can cause immense suffering. Yes, dissociation develops as an (unconscious) way to deal with traumatic situations and as such, it does serve a protective function. However, not without the very real possibility of creating enormous confusion, lack of control over one\'s life and immense suffering as it\'s consequences. vivian 2/20/2013 8:23:48 PM Dear Daniel, I am reading Alice Miller\'s work. Do you know of any therapists in North America who recognize and incorporate her theories in their work? Kind regards, Vivian deanna clayton-richardson 2/15/2013 8:52:27 AM excellent site thank you for your wisdom and awareness blessings Justin Paul O\'Brien 2/14/2013 8:43:20 PM 8137201247 I can\'t even think right now. I got a really bad head ache. I love your website though. Jenny 2/13/2013 4:32:50 PM Hi Daniel, Just been referred to you by a colleague. Wanted to send you this blog post I wrote last week. Happy to chat sometime. I run a teleseminar programme for my colleagues. Would be good to have a live conversation with you that others can listen to. http://theopenmindtherapist.com/2013/02/05/unearthing-26-year-old-medical-records-reveals-extent-of-schizophrenia/ Going to take a better look at your site. But feel a resonance already from home page. Best wishes Jenny (therapist - uk) anniechapman 2/7/2013 2:35:32 AM Hi Daniel, HUGE thanks for your wonderful videos. I am currently doing a Hikoi (protest walk) through the North Island of New Zealand re the issue of over-medication and lack of choice for mental health \"consumers\" in this country. I was able to borrow a copy of Healing Homes, watched it with a friend and was moved to tears by all that is shown and implied...the beauty of possibility and the tragedy of what is actually happening on the ground most everywhere... I would love to show excerpts from your docos at public meetings, but I am sorry my funds do not stretch to your public charging rate... would you consider selling the Finnish Open Dialogue at the private rate? I would have thought that this would be good for business ultimately in more people being exposed to your docos. Anyway, let me know what you think, warm regards, Annie Claudia 2/7/2013 1:52:45 AM Hi Daniel, I`m an Italian 33yo, I`m in the middle of a huge process of self-discovery, abuse memory recovery and self-healing (even if that`s a way too rational description of it, the real feeling more often than not is that I`m in deep s**t). I know this is the way because it sounds true to myself, it started in my childhood with some major psychosomatic symptoms, underestimated by my parents and totally inexplicable for traditional medicine, and went on until now, through the reading of Miller`s books (blessed woman!). Until now I`ve done all by myself, not finding any therapist contact/site/description I felt I could trust. But I`m starting to grow restless about the chance of being listened to by someone who doesn`t feel the need to alleviate or deny my pain and fear. I have so so much pain to let out... And the other problem I`m facing now is that I don`t have a job and I`m still so confused that I have no idea how to start about finding one. And the social/financial/rational pressures are part of my family problems, they just stick me deeper in every s**t I`ve been taught by my parents about how the world works. So, my question is, do you know any place in Europe, managed by people open and understanding towards this kind of process, that could allow me to do some work exchange/volunteering job in exchange for food and a bed for an indefinite period of time? Does a community/retreat/center like this even exists in the world? Thank you for your site, Daniel, you`ve been a great support in times of need! I wish you all the best in your life! Claudia Julie Huntington 2/4/2013 3:06:23 PM Thank you so much Dan Mackler. We have not met....but your making of these films has brought me to a new understanding in my life and the world. We need to be humans more often and share our humanness, mistakes can be made, life is lived, but keep an open mind, keep asking questions, keep trying to answer questions. Be. I am sharing your videos with others. Daniel Mackler 2/3/2013 7:12:58 PM Hello All! Good to hear from everyone. I answered some emails privately. But the public ones I\'ll answer here. Pat, you asked how hard it was for the Family Care Foundation to find host families... Well, I think it\'s not so much that it\'s hard to find host families, but finding really good ones! They advertise is local papers, and they also get referrals from other host families, and then the families go through a pretty intense interview process. I\'ve met most of their families and they\'re lovely people. Daniel Yvonne 1/30/2013 2:59:39 AM Dear Daniel, I have truly ENJOYED watching your videos and have forwarded them to friends. I also had a VERY abusive parent and traumatic childhood. Later, I tried traditional worthless \"therapy\" and it\'s too long and traumatic to go into here, suffice to say that I actually had to work on more healing issues from being traumatized by these \"therapists.\" I\'m over 40 now and I only wish that there was the Internet, and Youtube videos and amazon reviews right after my high school graduation to help me clear and heal my past. I really believe in my heart of hearts that it will be the awareness of the general public to the horrors of \"therapists\" and \"psychological drugs\" through authors/websites like yours that will turn this country around for the best! The average person does not really understand abuse and alternative treatments for their issues. I have worked hard through the years on my own personal healing in a very eclectic manner by talking with mentors/friends (who have also recovered from my same abuse issues), reading books, and metaphysical work like astrology, and psychic readings. Please continue writing your books and making videos. Thanks for everything.

Lluís Martí Olfers 11/13/2012 10:11:42 PM Thank you for your very well explained clarifications on enlightement and dissociation. I am happy and surprised to meet somebody that doesn\'t profess as a guru but has a clear and honest mind about both terms. Your experience must have been difficult, but rewarding to you and to us. I guess music teaches you a lot. Best wishes and thank you again! Levy Arnold 11/6/2012 9:39:12 AM Hello, I\'m very much interested in open dialogue therapy. I\'m looking for stopping medicaments, (that I have been taking for 3 years.) I can\'t find any mail for the center in Finland. Could you help me in giving me a link or a way to join them? thanks to all, Arnold chakula 10/31/2012 1:18:33 PM Learned so much from you, I will be here often Jack 10/31/2012 11:48:45 AM Cool site, keep it up or I\'ll follow you around all day :3 Milly Macker 10/30/2012 5:17:14 PM Just wanted to say hi Ana Ochoa de Eribe 9/21/2012 11:50:56 AM Dear Daniel, Thank you for your energy and deep presence. I watched your video on \"Bullshit -Anti psychiatry and Anti medication and laughed as I know well all this to be true. I am a transpersonal psychotherapist and I have worked in \"the system\" and seen all that you describe in the video in a humorous way. We know how sad this is and how many people are affected by it. The reason I have been interested in the abuse performed in the psychiatric system is because I have a brother, who was labelled with schizophrenia in Spain when he was 15 or 16 years old. He has been in an out of the psychiatric hospital for many years (he is 48 years old now) and now is incapacitated. His last destination has been an old people’s home, where he now lives. He is on leponex for life. His prescription is fixed and even when he is out of the psychiatric hospital this medication has not been revised and is compulsory for him until he dies. I live in England so my communication with him is only by phone. I have to hear him talking about stomach pain, deep cold in his bones, feeling dizzy knowing well that these are all side effects of the clozapine. It looks as if what I can do for this particular situation is limited to talking to him once per week and sharing the love of a sister with him. However I would like to help prevent this situation for someone else and do anything I can to help people understand that following the psychiatric system leads to desempowerment and destruction. If you can think on any way in which I can help you get this message out there please count on me, or if you know any contacts that might be interested in doing something in this area and I could work with them. Thank you so much for caring for the people and the planet and showing up here for all of us. Lots of love and blessings. Ana moe 9/7/2012 4:19:50 AM Your essay begins with: \"I could just as easily start by asking why straight people are straight. Few ask this, because they consider the answer so obvious – “it’s human nature.” But what isn’t human nature for a human to do? Are chimpanzees suddenly not chimps or penguins not penguins when they engage in homosexual behavior (which they sometimes do)?\" \"Straight people\" is a label taken out of its context: \"morally straight\" people. Morals refer to right and wrong. Your reference to human nature is ill-defined as well and, as such, is not an answer to the question you pose. Your statement that since chimps or penguins sometimes engage in homosexual behavior does not make them less of a chimp or a penguin makes no sense. What they do sexually does not define their nature--what sexual behavior does display are normal and abnormal behavioral patterns. When abnormal behavioral patterns are apparent one typically searches for either external or internal problems. Most gay people chose to be gay usually because of trauma with the opposite sex. Heather 9/6/2012 7:03:44 AM Thank you. Joe Tein 9/3/2012 6:51:47 AM Hey Daniel, Nice to read about you ... I tracked down your web site after looking at the YouTube videos you sent me! I like the caring and respectful tone in those Finnish settings ... very different from the standard psychiatric hospitals I\'ve worked in, and I think the main difference is in the people who are running them. And no wonder I enjoy being a translator/interpreter/language teacher a lot more than working in mental health right now! I\'ll be in touch some more via email. Ciao for now 🙂 Erna 8/29/2012 9:51:48 PM hello daniel, i wrote here some months ago so far. i \"consume\" your essays and films for my personal help and because i want to work as psychologist. i just listened to your interview in madness radio and feel very inspired. i also read morton schatzman´s \"persecution in the familiy\". i start to think, that it´s no mystery about the reasons, why people show, what is called psychosis. i would like to ask you one question to this subject, which makes me questioning about whom you speak, when it is about the so called psychotic people. there is a discussion between psychiatrists, if some of the patients, who are called schizophrenic, are diagnosed wrong and if their disorder should better be \"dissociative identity disorder\" (former MPS). what do you think about that? James 8/29/2012 6:38:49 PM Just wanted to say hi crystine Hershberger 8/24/2012 8:43:50 AM D. Are you aware of the term \"political correctness\".. I know it\'s over used and all. But it may be the most simplistic way I can explain linguistic stigmatization to you ... If you have cancer: are you a \"canceric/cancerous\" If you have depression: are you a \"depressic/depressionistic\" If you have indigestion are you an \"indigestionic\" ? If you\'re of African/Austrialian liniage are you a \"Black\" or a \"Coloured\" ? If you\'re of East-Asian descent are you a \"Chinamen\" , \"Oriental\" or \"Slant-Eyed\" ? If you\'re smoking marijuana are one \"the drug doorers\" .... Or if you\'re, let\'s just say A HUMAN, and different from yourself or other regular people you see on a day to day basis; be it language, socio-economic, health, culture, religion, etc : do you refer to \"all of those\" as THEM, THE, A, AN, THOSE PEOPLE, as oppose to \"people who are\" \"people who have/people with\" ??? *** I apologize for the pissy-rantiness, but if you are truly a parody, you SHALL display my message. take care. Crystine Hershberger 8/24/2012 8:40:11 AM DISCLAIMER: I started writing this after reading like 7 of your 32 reasons... and I actually thought you were being serious, and followed some of the links. .... I then began to type a very loquacious response, mid-way through I realize that you were actually [HOPEFULLY] being sarcastic. Anywhom here\'s part of my response: _ I started out liking how you seemed to be gender unbiased... but then, you seemed to become \"scientifically/factually/imaginarily unbiased\". I have a few simple questions: A. Which addition of the DSM are you using? _ B: Where/what are your resources? I mean like REAL resources, peer-reviewed and shit? _ Iris 8/20/2012 11:51:48 PM Hello David. Just now I watched you on youtube and got so surprised, to find someone beside Alice Miller, who speaks out loud what I only dare to think. I hope you never let yourself be intimidated by unsuitable criticism. Your work is precious and I admire you for your courage. I am now at age 40, still struggling to express myself in any form, although it`s my deepest need. I look forward to explore your website( what I`m going to do as soon as I finished this). I am german, writing from Switzerland, please excuse possible language errors. Take care and continue..........The World Needs People Like You. All the best, Iris. rex 8/20/2012 7:08:05 PM just wanted to say hii...

amanda thompson 5/9/2012 4:04:00 PM Dear Daniel, Thank you so much for speaking at the Salt Lake City Library on May 7, at the event sponsored by Empowerment Services! I want to let you know how much I thoroughly enjoyed and was fascinated by your talk - I could have listened to you for several more hours and continued to ask questions. As a person myself who has been diagnosed with several diagnoses, and who has been on more medications than I care to remember (antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics), and who is currently on seven psychotropic medications, you inspired me to take the step that I have been wanting to take for some time, and finally get off off these harmful medications. Since I started the last couple of medications, I have gained 70 pounds, my blood pressure has gone up and I physically feel horrible. I feel like listening to you very well will add years to my life. I want you to know that I will continue to spread your message through Empowerment Services and will be contacting you in the near future about screening one of your films here in Salt Lake City. Thanks again and warm regards, Amanda Thompson, Empowerment Services Jeroen 5/7/2012 5:50:06 PM This letter can be read on Alice Miller’s website: Monday January 22, 2007 Dear Alice Miller, I would like to ask you if you think Mr. is right, namely that total exploration of my child history is possible (and therefore total healing), or if you are right, that total exploration is \'hubris\' ? J. W. AM: Usually, I don\'t respond to people who don’t really know my books and got confused by people who WANT to confuse them. But as you say you know my books and want to understand my meaning of the word hubris, I will try to respond. In your quotation, the word hubris is taken out off context. You can find the context in the DRAMA and read the whole text on your own. Around 1997, I heard of some people who became addicted to primals in the hope to eventually liberate themselves from their past and empty the \"pool of pain.\" They tried to do their best, they cried and cried, without any resolution. They felt not good enough if they didn\'t succeed in healing. At the same time they were unable to question even the cruelest behavior of their parents. To me, this was exactly the reason why they were blocked. I do think that you don\'t need to recall every traumatic event if you deeply felt the devastating effect that your mother\'s or father\'s hatred for you created in your soul. It is not only a hubris, but it doesn\'t make much sense to mistreat oneself. Of course, flashbacks may come again and again and will help us to understand our feelings (of the past and of today) once we are open to our feelings. You can find my concept of effective therapy in my recent articles on this website. Leslie 5/6/2012 4:21:23 PM David, I just found your website late last night and have spent the whole morning checking it out. I\'m amazed at the parallels between your own story and mine and just as Mikel (above), I have no formal college education but I have come to almost all of the same conclusions as you have. Until today, I was seriously considering that I might be the only one in the universe who had survived this depth of trauma long enough to get to those conclusions. You\'re an amazing person, and so courageous in your truth telling. Thank you so very much for being you! I feel on more tiny step closer to my own healing just by the feeling of validation I\'ve received from reading what you have here. 🙂 juliestoneham 5/3/2012 4:39:05 AM ps.. I sent this out The Advantages of Being Conventional The world loves the conventional. No one attacks you. No one hates you. No one criticizes you. No one rejects you. No one steps on your toes while at the same time accusing you of stepping on theirs. But the conventional are dead. They were long since routed out of the best of themselves. They were long since hated and criticized and civilized into soul-numbing defeat. They were long since divorced from the best their potential had to offer. Their now-loving parents once injected poison into their veins. This prepared them for life in the soft lane. This prepared them for conventional work, conventional relationships, conventional parenthood, conventional life expectancies, conventional nights of warm sleep, and conventional perspective. The sick take care of their own. But so do the healthy. The healthy freely share of their gifts. The healthy know greater truth, because they nurture their relationship with their deepest selves. The healthy don’t love you because you are dead. They healthy love you for your spark. The healthy are not your parents. Your parents love your placid success because it reminds them every day how good of a job they did in trimming off the sharp edges of your radical truth. Your deadness proves to them that they are worthwhile people, because they are dead too. Our world doesn’t need more conventional people. Our world is a mess, and we need a new breed of super-people to rise from the ashes of the old and truly call this stinking garbage dump of lies by its rightful name by Daniel Mackler julie stoneham 5/3/2012 4:30:08 AM I really really appriciate what I have read and heard from you on your website. I am graduating with my msw in 3 days at 52. I undertand what you say, as I have become an msw because of experience, yet am amazed at how few get it.... in the field.. I hope to make a difference, and yes, I already have. I have put my neck out there more than once.. but now as i enter the field as a proffesional, I see so much more than when I started.. I would like to talk to you if you have the time. I admire your work and your insight... Julie Linda harrison 5/2/2012 3:39:29 PM I first came across ur hilarious smell bullshit song on tube. I posted it straight to Peter Breggin via Facebook and they laughed and said u had been very helpful if not a little eccentric I. Getting all ur messages across. As a survivor of psychotropic meds.... Well still have a ways to go on the xanax (man is that stuff the bomb) I agree with all ur tube vids finally a voice for what I\'ve always Believed about the world being in a mess... The norm being sick n the dangers of getting stuck in therapy! I especially agree about ur views on not having kids... If u wanna read something tragic type in \" I hate being a mother\" via google... What comes up is \"I hate being a fucking mother\" n the monstrosities on that forum r hideous. I\'ll look into your friend Alice as she sounds great. I like realists hope to find ya on Facebook Linda yvonne 4/23/2012 10:10:09 AM Just saw your youtube \"Childhood Trauma and the Process of Healing (by Daniel Mackler)\" and totally happy in finding someone who has the same idea\'s an similar childhood and finding the same solution (inner search, keeping a dairly as a companion and explaining own dreams to understand the unconsiousness). Thanks for charing!! Kelly Jameson 4/17/2012 6:42:07 AM Our paths and where it has taken us are eerily similar, the difference though is in the expression. I have found the experience of spiritual non-duality to be of great importance to my own evolution. I reached this in part by living an asexual life as both genders exposing me to the extremes of yin(she) and yang(he) creating a fusion of both that resulted in needing neither. This was not a conscious intention but it was an inevitable one. If you are searching for something you may find it in the non-dualistic thinking of the East if you can avoid the trap that belief creates. Alulia Baca 4/7/2012 10:14:53 PM Hello Daniel! I found you on Mad In America and thought I would drop you a note. I was on neuroleptic meds for more than 30+ years. It was very stressful to get off of Abilify (my last med) but I did around 2.5 years ago. The changes were extremely positive for me except I began experiencing trauma because of betrayal, condemnation and people trying to force a pill down my throat with implications that I am evil. I finally had to cut my family almost totally off of me. My positive changes have been: 1) creativity greatly boosted, 2) I can cry now, 3) I feel like a woman instead of a zombie, 4) my vision has improved so much I have probably 20/20 or close, 5) I\'m much more active than I ever was, 6) my biological clock turned back as I look much younger now, 7) my mind is sharper, etc. Please don\'t send an email to me because I think my computer is hacked. Also, I can\'t get anyone in my home state to listen to me because I\'m sure they have been warned I\'m a \"nut\" case without meds. I was wrongfully evicted out of my home and was psychologically tortured in a detention center for one night as I was held there in my hometown for a hearing to be evaluated to see if I needed to be in a psych ward. My case is truly bizarre as I wondered for a few months mostly in Oklahoma and Missouri trying to find help and survive. I would love to speak to you about this personally. Thanks! Jennifer Kanary 4/6/2012 9:28:20 AM Dear Daniel, Thank you so much for making and sending the films. I received them yesterday and am halfway through. They are great! I look forward to quoting them in my research. As a filmmaker you might find the project Labyrinth Psychotica that I am working on interesting, it is a project in development that tries to understand, from an artistic perspective, what it is like to be psychotic. On of the aspects is \'The Wearable\'. It forms an augmented reality multimedia interactive cinema multipath \'game\' that is first experienced and then discussed. Here is a link to a draft of the first 7 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkA8hHSU3PM&feature=relmfu Hope you like it. In any case, cheers! Jennifer Kanary NL 4/1/2012 2:56:19 AM Accidentally came across your website while googling about trauma. Found your writing reflects a lot of what I\'ve been thinking, reading and my own journey of self discovery and healing. thanks so much. Nice to know that there are others out there who are on similar journeys. Love & peace. Linda 3/17/2012 2:27:32 AM You are truly speaking to me. I am a frightened and sad little child in a grown up (and old) body. I have wanted to heal from past trauma inflicted by my family members for a long time. I love your video The dangers of psychiatric medications. I have tried to live without them and invariably end up in the lock up. I know I need help and that the only one who can really do this is me. The saddest part is that I am also a Mom who has traumatized her child. I have not physically or sexually abused him. I admit that I was not a very good Mom. I will refer him to your website. I think that maybe he would be better off to be away from me geographically and emotionally. I am very concerned for his mental well being. Do you believe in hopeless cases? I do not. I wish you all the best. Wayne Lambright 3/10/2012 7:07:22 AM Thanks for speaking the truth for many. David Hopkins 3/5/2012 8:01:33 AM Hi Daniel, Hey thank you for making the film about Open Dialogue Therapy. What a great service you did going there and helping us to see for ourselves what is going on. Really appreciate that. I am excited to show other folks the dvd. You also sent it so quickly. I so enjoyed watching. It gave me more fuel in my hope burner. That is even brighter now. Cheerio David Jessica Lee Daley 2/23/2012 6:49:59 PM I stumbled upon your website while researching a project for a Psychology of Drugs and Human Behavior course. Found what I needed for my project (with appropriate credit cited) - thank you! But I\'ve found your essays and video series speaking far more loudly to my personal life, and coming at a much needed time, as I\'ve recently begun to struggle with parenting ... the advice I receive from other parents, pediatricians, etc. is so unhelpful and blase. \"It\'s just the terrible two\'s,\" I heard. But I couldn\'t shake the feeling that it\'s me - not him. He\'s a baby, his world is limited by only two years of life experience, so I kept thinking that if he\'s frustrated - it\'s because I\'m giving him a reason to be. I\'m not in tune to something he needs - not sure yet what specifically it is (it may be multiple things), but I am inspired to work harder to find out without becoming frustrated or exasperated back. Looking forward to the journey! Mikel Sims 2/21/2012 5:07:39 PM Daniel, I was astounded while reading your essay “ALICE MILLER IN A NUTSHELL: A BRIEF CRITIQUEâ” I only found out about Alice Miller today and stumbled upon your page by accident five minutes later. Your opinions and the expressions you voice of Alice’s resound deeply with me and project volumes of likeminded conclusions I have come to alone. I am an uneducated person academically and not a reader of books although I have reached exactly the same opinions you discussed about the inappropriateness of people having kids. (And others) I applaud you for having the courage to openly discuss what I believe to be a major downfall of society. Too many people are having children that should not be having children. Humans have evolved so far that they should have the intellect to resist the urge to procreate until their minds and souls are healthy enough to become perfect parents to their perfect babies. Congratulations Daniel and good luck.