What Eric Maisel does is just a humanistic psychology with a sect twist. The point of this philosophy is that noone is sick, and you’re not a patient, you’re a client. What he does is basically coaching, where you talk most, and he just direct you, or maybe you direct yourself and he just nods. In this case i rather hold with Lennart Sjöberg. Maisel adda a little bit to the show with his sect Kirism, which he calls philosophy. But are you really a free man if you need to define the rules? Maisel comes up a little bit self absorbed in his books and interviews. There is a lot of useful tips if you’re mildly sad, stuck in life or just let your diagnosis like adhd define your whole life, but there is also a lot of harmfulness in his approach to psychiatry and clinical disorders. States in other book that manic states, depression or psychosis is just the reaction of mind for not living as your available personality. It’s like he completely avoids the neurological aspects of the brain.

The book is very informative and insightful, however the author repeats himself often and plugs in his other books and 'life philosophy' that, at times, is quite distracting and breaks the flow.