“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 ...”

“This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man cant help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him.”

“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...”

“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...”

“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”

“When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.”

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wound...”

“You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.”