"If you're having family estrangement issues, read Healing From Family Rifts. It will help."
-- Bettina Gregory, PsyD. Host American Family on Goodlife TV Network

-- Amy Dickinson cites Mark Sichel and Healing From Family Rifts in Newsday's "Ask Amy" column.

"The empathetic Sichel, a clinical social worker, stresses that those cut off have the right to be happy and at peace. He suggests they let go of resentment for their own well-being and be grateful for their "second chance" family, which could include spouses, children and friends. He also suggests ways to repair the rift...Perhaps what Sichel does best is encourage readers (and this could apply to anyone) to make meaning out of life's experiences, whatever comes our way."
-- Devin Rose, Chicago Tribune

"...Among other strategies, [Mark Sichel's] ten steps lead readers to deal with their own trauma, learn to love themselves, understand family myths and roles, build supportive relationships with others (their "second-chance family"), and try to heal the break if possible. Drawing on stories from Sichel's patients and from personal experience (his father broke with him twice), this book is sure to be read eagerly by those in difficult family situations."
-- Library Journal

"In Healing from Family Rifts, Mark Sichel offers up compassionate and profoundly helpful advice to anyone who has undergone the guillotine of family estrangement. It's by far the most direct, heartfelt and useful book on the topic I've seen."
-- Guy Kettelhack, author of First-Year Sobriety; Sober & Free; and Dancing Around the Volcano

"My family has been driving me crazy for my entire adult life and I've read every self help book I could find on coping with a dysfunctional family. Some of what I've read has been very helpful, but this was the first book that truly made me feel better. Sichel writes from the heart and from his personal experience and I've found this book has become my personal tool-box for dealing with my family. I couldn't live without it."
-- Amazon.com Reader Review

"When my grown son wouldn't see or talk with me or my husband or his sister and brother, I was so traumatized that I lost my voice for six weeks. I knew I had to go on with life, but didn't know how to do it. Healing from Family Rifts gave me permission to move on with my life. Thank you, Mark."
-- SK, teacher, New York

"Healing from Family Rifts is a lifesaver because it helps me be aware that one, I am not alone with this problem. Two, the trauma is real. Three, there is hope to function normally and happily even if my family doesn't want to have anything to do with me.
-- CS, dentist, San Diego

"It really hurts to be cut off. Healing from Family Rifts is a support because it helps me block my obsessive thoughts of the trauma with the hopeful suggestions in your book."
-- JG, salesman, Dallas

"I just got back from a month's vacation and am so overwhelmed by the in-laws' onslaught on me and my wife that I didn't get a chance to write you sooner. We've been reading your book and it is a lifesaver. Gracias."
-- RB, banker, Madrid

"...simply [log] on to www.psybersquare.com, where there is a bonanza of insight and useful ideas to keep the soul on track and the psyche above water. Psybersquare is exquisitely balanced, with its plethora of original articles and tangible services..."
-- Jod Kaftan, New York Magazine Online

"For the millions of people who need help coping with everyday problems...there is an alternative. Psychotherapist Mark Sichel is behind a motivational website called psybersquare.com..."
-- Fred Fishkin, CBS News Online

"In addition to advice and compassion, Psybersquare provides practical exercises for creative problem solving. A mental-health site...based on health and strength rather than psychopathology."
-- USA Today names Psybersquare a "Hot Site"

"...Cherie found herself spending...more time at psybersquare.com, an online mental health site run by Mark Sichel, a therapist in New York City. 'I couldn't leave the house because I was so worried...online therapy was the only way...'"
-- "E-therapy Comes of Age," Robert Boynton, On Magazine

Mark Sichel, author of Healing from Family Rifts, cited as expert on anxiety in "Manhattan, the Deserted Isle."
-- New York Times Online

Healing from Family Rifts author Mark Sichel interviewed as expert in attending to the emotional needs of caregivers.
-- "Taking Care of the Caregiver," Redbook