With so much in the news about all the high-tech ways to conceive, we’ve almost forgotten about the old fashioned way to get pregnant: having sex. But for many couples—especially men—this can be the most stressful fertility treatment of all. Fertility specialists routinely suggest that couples have sex during the most opportune window of the...Continue reading
Category: Psychology
An Adult Fairy Tale For Understanding Grief Work
Most people think fairy tales are only for children. If one looks more closely, you will find fairy-tales, fables and stories from quite a few cultures that are for adolescents, young adults, middle-aged folks and even elders. The one I am about to tell you is about many things but specifically about the need to...Continue reading
Reality and Real Men: Opening up About Men’s Mental Health Issues
Depression and anxiety have been diagnosed at unprecedented levels in this country for years, and seem to only rise in concordance with the pace and demands of our time. Further, in an America that today is so identified with stress and success, not to mention the heightened burdens of economic struggle, we often ignore our...Continue reading
Defending Boundaries
The following post is an excerpt from John Lee’s new book “24 Things To Increase the Emotional Intelligence of Your Man.” To find other books by John Lee visit his website www.johnleebooks.com and www.turnerpublishing.com.
Case Studies in Flying Above the Father in Literature & Film: Hemingway’s Robert Jordan
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Happy Pills Or Dummy Pills? Just Don’t Let Them Be Ignorance Pills
I wanted to draw your attention to an article published in the February 8th issue of Newsweek magazine that highlights recently released research that solidly confirms the nearly imperceptible difference between the effectiveness of medications and placebos for the treatment of mild, moderate, and even severe depression. Drawing primarily from a met-analysis published in the...Continue reading