Peter Michaelson

Psychotherapist Peter Michaelson is a former journalist and science writer who possesses a unique ability to render depth psychology into easily understood self-help information. Peter has taken the best knowledge from depth psychology and made it simple enough that lay readers around the world can relate to on a personal level. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and he blogs at his depth psychology website, WhyWeSuffer.com.

For more than 35 years, he has worked as a psychotherapist and refined his writing skills to help his readers and clients acquire the keys to valuable inner truth. Peter spent many years searching for answers to his own dissatisfaction and career setbacks. He tried many popular self-development methods, and most of these helped him out to some degree. But he still wasn’t flourishing or fulfilling his potential, so he knew some important aspect of his inner life was not being addressed.

Fortunately, while living in Florida, he heard about a psychotherapist who “works very deeply in the unconscious.” In 1985, he began doing weekly sessions with this psychotherapist. In these sessions, he acquired the insight that resolved the inner conflicts that had been disrupting his life.

Since then, he has been using this unique psychotherapy with his own clients. He has now written nine books that discuss different aspects of this deep approach. These books have remedies for many painful symptoms, including low self-esteem, addictions, indecision, compulsions, loneliness, depression, failure, self-sabotage, and inner passivity.

He also publishes three other books, written by his late wife and fellow psychotherapist, Sandra Michaelson (1944-1999). Sandra’s books discuss this powerful depth psychology from the perspective of self-development, relationships, and codependency. She believed that psychology, at its most insightful, is able to deliver us to the doorway of enlightenment, and she led all of us who knew her into deeper self-understanding, toward joy and inner freedom.

Books by Peter Michaelson (available at Amazon as e-books or paperbacks):

Our Deadly Flaw: Healing the Inner Conflict that Cripples Us and Subverts Society

Who's Afraid of Inner Truth: Dispatches From the Psyche's War Zone

Psyched Up: The Deep Knowledge that Liberates the Self

Why We Suffer: A Western Way to Understand and Let Go of Unhappiness

Democracy’s Little Self-Help Book

The Phantom of the Psyche: Freeing Ourself From Inner Passivity

Freedom from Self-Sabotage: How to Stop Being Our Own Worst Enemy

See Your Way to Self-Esteem: Healing Your Psyche through Depth Psychology

Secret Attachments: Exposing the Roots of Addictions and Compulsions

Books by Sandra Michaelson (available at Amazon as e-books or paperbacks):

LoveSmart: Transforming the Emotional Patterns that Sabotage Relationships

Is Anyone Listening? Repairing Broken Lines in Couples Communication

The Emotional Catering Service: The Quest for Emotional Independence