Quest for Self

About

Peter Michaelson - I spent the late 1970s and early 1980s searching for a solution to my chronic dissatisfaction and career dead-ends. I tried all the popular get-well methods, including gestalt, primal therapy, neuro-linguistic training, bioenergetics, cognitive therapy, psychosynthesis, yoga, meditation, along with rebirthing, sweat lodges, and other New Age approaches.

Most of these methods of self-development helped me out somewhat. But I could tell that a fundamental understanding of myself had not been achieved. However, I had no idea where to find this deeper awareness, and I was quite discouraged about getting help.

Fortunately, while living in south Florida I heard about a psychotherapist who worked "very deeply in the unconscious." In 1985 I became a client of his. In sessions with him, I soon became aware of the precise nature of the fundamental conflict within me, and very quickly I began to resolve it.

I have been using this unique psychotherapy with my own clients ever since. I have also written books that discuss different aspects of the self-knowledge that this psychotherapy exposes. My books examine self-esteem, addictions and compulsions, self-sabotage, inner passivity, aggression, as well as social and political factors, all from an in-depth perspective.

I am licensed in Michigan as a Professional Counselor. I have a practice in Ann Arbor, MI, and do telephone sessions and email exchanges with clients throughout the United States and the world.

In addition to my books, three other books dealing with this self-knowledge are available at this website. These books were written by my late wife, Sandra Michaelson (1944-1999), and they discuss this powerful knowledge from the perspectives of relationships and codependency.

Sandra 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.