Mental Health and Creative Purpose with Eric Maisel 11/03/15

Dr. Eric Maisel has written more than 40 books on a wide variety of subjects. His latest book is The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm and describes a future of mental health movement that he is spearheading.His interests include creativity, meaning, life purpose, and mental health. He works with clients as a creativity coach, trains creativity coaches, and provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association. He also offers writing workshops around the world in places like London, Paris, Prague, Rome, New York and San Francisco and at workshop centers like Esalen, Kripalu and Omega.He is an advocate for a changed and revitalized view of mental health services, one that does away with our current mental disorder naming system, and is writing the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today.Some of his books in this area include Rethinking Depression, The Van Gogh Blues, Brainstorm, and his latest, The Future of Mental Health. In it, he describes what he conceives as the helper of the future, the human experience specialist. You can learn more about this by taking his Human Experience Specialist class.Eric is an advocate for a global paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning. He's written about value-based meaning-making in many of his books, including in his latest, Life Purpose Boot Camp.