By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. Why Men’s Groups? It appears that men today are just as cut off and stuck as their predecessors. Our culture is faster and more demanding than ever before. Men find themselves caught in the rat race, struggling to keep up, and challenged to balance their lives against the demands of
By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. Introduction In Part I of my threepart series on depression titled, When Depression Turns Deadly: The Mask Men Wear, I focused more specifically on the hidden depression in men and how to recognize it before it ravages your life. The tragic loss of a loved one by suicide is
By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. Anger Presents in Different Forms Paul Ekman, Ph.D., one of the world’s experts on emotions and author of Emotions Revealed, says that anger is expressed in many ways. “There is a range of angry feelings, from slight annoyance to rage. There are not just differences in the strength of
By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. Introduction In Part I of my three-part series on depression titled, When Depression Turns Deadly: The Mask Men Wear, I focused more specifically on the hidden depression in men and how to recognize it before it ravages your life. The tragic loss of a loved one by suicide is
By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. Introduction In this first part of my threepart series on depression titled, When Depression Turns Deadly: The Mask Men Wear , I focus more specifically on the hidden depression in men and how to recognize it before it ravages your life. The tragic loss of a loved one by suicide
Is he power-mad, or simply a good leader? by Sylvia Cary Reprinted with permission from Joe Weider’s Men’s Fitness May 1993 Are you now, or have you ever been, a control freak? Ever worked for one? Lived with one? Thirty years ago, the term hadn’t even been coined. Today men are routinely accused of trying
By Benedict Carey After more than a decade in hiding, smoky men’s club fun is back. Between Macanudo cigars and martinis, rare scotch and rare beef, long lunches and steakhouse dinners, a little naughtiness is in again – even for healthy people. To paraphrase Chesterton: Happier the man who eats caviar on impulse than the
Published in Whole Life Times, August 1998, pp.26 The other night my 18-year-old son and I drove to the video store to return a couple of movies. As we were leaving the store, we witnessed a brewing confrontation between two men. The larger of the two was standing by his parked car unleashing a torrent
By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D. The news these days is laden with the escalating war against terrorism and the random acts of violence that are becoming so prevalent. It’s alarming, in modern times, that factions of our world are still very much in the throes of unconscionable acts of cruelty and inhumanity that demonstrate