If you have read Michael Gurian’s book, How Do I Help Him? A Practitioner’s Guide to Working With Boys and Men In Therapeutic Settings, you will have read about male-friendly social emotional approaches, including an archetypal (Jungian) approach to male development. This week we are featuring Part II of Dr. Jed Diamond’s analysis of male suicide, depression, and the evolutionary biology behind the archetypal approach to helping our men and …

Dr. Jed Diamond, an evolutionary medicine specialist, has studied male depression and suicide for decades.  He recently joined with colleagues to develop Moonshot For Mankind, a coalition to advance male and female positive programs worldwide. This week’s blog post by Dr. Diamond is the first part of two parts in which he looks at male development from an evolutionary viewpoint. Homecoming: An Evolutionary Approach for Healing Depression and Preventing Suicide, …

Sex trafficking is a heinous crime, and there is more of it going on than we realize.  This week we want to feature a new podcast and documentary about Jennisue Jessen, who was trafficked starting at four years old. We became aware of this podcast and story through Daniel Clary, a documentary film maker and podcaster who was Michael Gurian’s neighbor.  This is a very compelling story. Jennisue and …

Michael Gurian has published more than thirty books and dozens of articles.  In the last couple years, he has been watching how membership services and Substack have evolved.  This year he took the plunge–he joined Substack!  As he puts it, “This is a wonderful way to reach my readers directly with my newest work.” We hope you will subscribe to michaelgurian.substack.com/  Subscribing is easy to do, inexpensive (the cost for …