Contributed by Terry Real
10 Results
Reflections on Rich
Friends Celebrate His Life and Legacy
Working with Difficult Men
Where’s the Leverage for Change?
The Long Shadow of Patriarchy
Couples Therapy in the Age of Trump
The election of Donald Trump and the resurgence of populism throughout the West were fueled by a renewed pull toward certain notions of traditional masculinity. Although therapists have remained largely silent about this revival of patriarchy in the culture, is neutrality really in the best interests of our clients? Read More
Should You Have Leverage Over Your Clients?
Terry Real on Why Male Grandiosity Necessitates Leverage
The Awful Truth
Most Men Are Just Not Raised to be Intimate
After the publication of my book, I Don't Want to Talk about It, I started getting calls from people around the United States who wanted help. Naming the issue of "covert depression" in men seemed to have struck a chord. Some of the calls were from men, but most were from women who were at the end of their rope, having already dragged their partners to therapy, veterans of at least one, most often several, failed courses of couples work. Read More
Terry Real
Terry Real, LICSW, is an internationally recognized couples therapist, speaker, author, and founder of the Relational Life Institute (RLI). His latest bestseller is Us: How to Get Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. He's also the author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women, and The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work.