“The ManAlive program teaches how the angry man is more often a response to experiencing a threat to their image, which triggers a fight or flight response. When the sympathetic nervous system gets ...”

“It is very likely that men who are more gender role identified would never be seen as codependent because so many of their gender role traits are normal for an avoidantly attached codependent. Men ...”

“When I consider the men (like my father) I have treated in psychotherapy, I recognize the challenge I face as a counselor. These men are in counseling due to an insistent wife, troubled child or th...”

“Dissociation from the body and emotions numbness is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal cultures influence is so strong on this point that it int...”

“In general, I have noticed that many Codependent men have adopted a self based on either an exaggerated male gender role or a reaction to a gender role conflict. The challenge when working with mal...”

“Few men realize how much of their lives are lived in pursuit of the values our culture has traditionally associated with masculinity. These values a primary focus on work, logical thinking and alw...”

“There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.”

“We each can foster loving and kind relationships through meditation and repeating mantras.”

“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. T...”

“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered ...”

“The most chronic and complex of the dissociative disorders, multiple personality disorder, was renamed multiple personality disorder, was renamed 'dissociative identity disorder' in 1994 in DSM-IV ...”

“The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision”

“She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.”