Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel

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ABOUT ERIC MAISEL Eric Maisel is an internationally-recognized diplomat coach, the author of 60+ books in the areas of coaching, creativity, life purpose, meaning, and mental health, and President of the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists. A retired family therapist and active master coach, Dr. Maisel is the lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series, which takes a critical look at the current mental disorder paradigm and the influence of psychiatry on society’s institutions. Its 2026 offerings are Artists in Crisis, Existential Wellness, The Human Experience Specialist, two books on psychiatric drugs, and one on psychiatry and technology. His popular Psychology Today blog “Rethinking Mental Health” has more than 3.5 million views, and, in conjunction with Noble-Manhattan Coaching, he has developed three training programs, a Creativity Coach Certificate Program, an Existential Wellness Coach Certificate Program, and a Relationship Coach Certificate Program. Dr. Maisel regularly blogs for The Good Men Project and Fine Art America, presents sponsored workshops, webinars, and keynotes, and maintains an international coaching practice. He has been interviewed more than five hundred times on the topics of coaching, creativity, life purpose, meaning and mental health. Among his 60+ titles are Existential Nomads (Summer, 2026), The Reenchantment of Meaning (Summer, 2026), Brave New Mind, Night Brilliance, Existential Wellness Coaching, Choose Your Life Purposes, Parents Who Bully, Redesign Your Mind, Rethinking Depression, Coaching the Artist Within, Why Smart People Hurt, The Coach’s Way, Fearless Creating, The Future of Mental Health, The Power of Daily Practice and The Van Gogh Blues. Dr. Maisel has delivered his five-day Deep Writing workshop at conference centers like the Omega Institute, Esalen, Hollyhock, the Kripalu Yoga & Retreat Center, and the Art of Living Retreat Center; and in locales like San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Prague, London, Rome, and Paris. His weekly blogs include “The Craft of Coaching with Eric Maisel” and “Tales of the Creative Life.” Dr. Maisel was born in the Bronx, grew up in Brooklyn, and attended Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School. Among his degrees are a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Oregon and a B.A. in Psychology, a M.A. in Creative Writing, and an M.S. in Counseling, all from San Francisco State University. A retired California licensed marriage and family therapist, he lives in Walnut Creek, California with Ann Mathesius Maisel, his wife of forty-nine years.
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    • Twelve Incantations for Purpose, Power, and Calm
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