“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...”

“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...”

“Perfectly ImperfectWe have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal fo...”

“Landsman and Bina were married to each other for twelve years and together for five before that. Each was the other's first lover, first betrayer, first refuge, first roommate, first audience, firs...”

“It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.”

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to und...”

“Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color cannot be racist, or a woman sexist, because they do not hav...”