The Freedomain Radio Interview with Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler

Daniel Mackler, a psychotherapist and documentary filmmaker, describes the talking cure for schizophrenia - and asks me what my flaws are... :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/dmackler58

http://www.iraresoul.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• therapy
• psychology
• schizophrenia
• psychiatry

[marienkaefer6]

For Daniel:

Wanting to be perfect it's just continue the abuse on you.. but yourself..

Abused in the name of imperfection... by people who can not stand they own imperfection and try to repair it through their children.

Wanting to be perfect is impossible because you are a human being.. you'll be frustrated.. and people who are frustrated are the ones who become abusers.. you can control it but it won't make you happy.

I think the aim of life is not being perfect but being happy.

[Marchije]

Man. I've never heard such a frank and honest discussion about raising children and our reasons for doing so. It is strange how it is a taboo subject, particularly when those of us who have not propegated attempt to approach the subject with those ethat have. I have come to MANY of the same conclusions as Daniel, but I have to admit, hearing him say some of it made me uncomfortable...which is a good thing!

..."Breeding laterally." I like it.

[landloper1986]

we need generations, though fluctuations take place. we need to sustain our future, and our kids are our mirror, and damadge is inherent to life,, just look at what gravity does to us. kids allow us to study and perform universally prefferable behaviour, and for minimal damadge to children can be something like just expecting to much of a child, etc etc

[landloper1986]

its because the trauma is programming, and when the practicioners and parents dont understand their trauma it will never pop up on the radar and problems do not get solved.

[jeffiek]

@DaveFerreira I remember a story of a 4 year old girl. Her mother was unaffectionate. Her friends mother gave her child hugs. The little girl wanted hugs and so decided to start giving her mother hugs, and kept it up until her mother responded.

Children are at a severe disadvantage, nevertheless, they make choices every day of their lives. They bear the consequences and (as above) reap the rewards.

I wonder what choices I made when I was four.

[DaveFerreira]

I am just trying to point out the problem with the reasoning behind responsibility in this particular discussion, it does not seem to follow logically with the conclusion.

[DaveFerreira]

Stef, you said that you are responsible for your unconscious motives. You said you are responsible as well for what led you to that state, but the discussion is on childhood and child raising, it is impossible to be responsible for your childhood abuse which is being said in this video to be the reason for parental abuse. So how is it possible anyone abused as a child can be responsible for their unconscious behavior in your analogy to drunkenness.

[jruizdemena]

Hi stef, i just discover you and freedomain, and, like with everything else at the begining, i was insecure about this but this video i see you are a great man. You took your time to work on your self before having a child!! there is great honesty in that.

Greetings from Spain!

[tunezindahouse]

I LOVE IT!

[shadeofteal]

@MexicanCocaCola If the causes were genetic/biological, it would hardly be possible to overcome "sz" only by making traumatic experiences conscious, and work the through. A non-medical approach like talk therapy doesn't cure any truly medical illness like diabetes (sic). Lots of people have overcome "sz" with the help of non-medical approaches alone. Biology/genes are just another symptom (of having been traumatized), not the cause.

[shadeofteal]

@MexicanCocaCola 80 percent recovery: check out Open Dialog/Jaakko Seikkula, and/or Soteria/Loren Mosher. The sad reality is that most people most places are told they suffer from a CHRONIC brain disease they can't do anything about but learn to live with - and that they will have to take the drugs for the rest of their lives. Truth is, the drugs chronify the "illness". Definitely when used long-term. Full recovery happens off drugs, not on them.