Who's Afraid of Inner Truth?: Dispatches from Our Psyche's War Zone

By Peter Michaelson

The 74 short articles in this book are dispatches or reports from our psyche's underworld. Here you'll learn what makes you tick. If you want to escape from misery and self-defeat, here's the depth psychology, in the simplest possible language, that can set you on the path to happiness and success.The author, Peter Michaelson, has taken the best knowledge from depth psychology and made it simple enough that lay readers can relate to on a personal level. Michaelson worked for almost twenty years as a journalist for daily newspapers before becoming a psychotherapist in the 1980's. Since then, his writing and investigative skills helped him to penetrate and describe the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the human psyche and the frailties of human nature. Our psyche is a war zone of inner conflict, where primitive forces and instincts involving aggression, passivity, egotism, resistance, defenses, libido, and irrationality clash with their conflicting agendas. Just about everyone is a casualty, to some degree, of this inner conflict. Most people are innocent victims of this unconscious process, in the sense of being so uninformed of the psychic forces that keep us trapped in ignorance, stuck in a limited range of functioning, and fated to act out unnecessary suffering.This book offers a method of depth psychology that is highly effective in strengthening and empowering us. This method serves as a remedy for everyday people because, above all, it makes us self-sufficient: It enables us to overcome our inner malaise and lack of progress without the need or cost of experts. With this knowledge, many of us don't need to have our own psychotherapist, although having a good therapist is certainly a boon that can speed up the process of self-development.Depth psychology dislodges the irrationality and chaos that breed in our psyche. The self-knowledge empowers us. With it, our intelligence is greatly enhanced. We take what's been unconscious and make it conscious. Now that we understand the old programming that's been running our emotional life, our intelligence updates the program and gets us functioning at our highest potential.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522011579
• ISBN13: 9781522011576
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.1" x 5.5"