Talk:Alice Miller (psychologist)

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Contents 1 Mackler's essay, Round 2

[edit] Mackler's essay, Round 2

This is a response to the above [archived] posts about Dan Mackler's essay:

Mackler has already a book contract with Routledge in London, and he is publishing a book —peer-reviewed— with a psychiatrist. In fact, they are co-editors/co-authors. The book is on the therapetic treatment with the severely mentally ill and it should be coming out in the Fall.

Furthermore, a whole book by Mackler on Miller has just been released three days ago.

Therefore, since NPOV requires that all sourced views be represented, I've included a "criticism" section which mentions this book. This time there's no reason to revert.

201.103.127.241 (talk) 16:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Mackler's Essay was published by Annosidus Independent Press February 11. Of course clicking on the ISBN or Google it doesn't give it the necessary info yet. But contact The Swedish Royal Library if you want a confirmation of its existence instead of deleting it because it doesn't show up on Google. There are other channels to get your necessary info. And what's the deal between Google and Wikipedia anyway? Google is a commercial company, which only indexed a part of the internet. Maybe some people should start Googlepedia instead. Immortale (talk) 12:18, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Immortale is responding to an edit summary by Jack-A-Roe complaining about the isbn number. I am relocating his/her post to this section. In another edit summary Jack-A-Roe wrote:

• "Deleting statement that describes a book and does not address the topic of Alice Miller. All it says it that the book is critical of her flaws. What flaws? What page of the book?"

All through the book! That is the subject of the book. Do you want that I expand the section explaining Mackler et al criticism of how Miller has treated some people in real life? Please do not misunderstand me. Miller is IMHO a discoverer of a new continent in the psychological world. I believe she will be recognized as such in the future. But like the rest of mankind she is all too human. The book focuses on the weak aspects not with the purpose of character assassination but, believe it or not, to give more credibility to her discoveries. —Cesar Tort 14:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

For those who keep removing Mackler's criticism on Alice Miller, this is the place to discuss any arguments. I've put the critique back because it's relevant to the entire article. Immortale (talk) 08:40, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

This has been discussed a couple times already - there's a section in the talk page archive about it. The book does not appear to be a reliable source - there are no G-scholar or G-book hits for the author at all. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 08:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)