Description
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking guide that provides men with tools to improve their mental health and well-being. Masculinity requires a redesign. Men exhibit higher rates of suicide, lower rates of help-seeking, higher rates of substance use and abuse, and higher rates of anger and violence. How can this change? In Man Kind, counseling psychologist Zachary Gerdes, PhD, provides a framework for improving men's mental health and well-being while redefining what it means to be masculine. Rather than following a traditional view of masculinity focused on stoicism, patriarchy, and self-reliance, Gerdes provides his LIFT modela road map to help men foster collaboration, understand when and how to utilize resources, and build mental resilience and flexibility. In this empowering book, Gerdes: helps men understand their thoughts and behaviors from a psychological perspective provides steps to help men change behaviors that are detrimental to their health and relationships outlines a model for healthy
Table of ContentsForeword by Ronald Levant, PhD
Introduction
Part I: Leverage
Chapter 1. The Lay of the Land
Chapter 2. Working Harder and Smarter
Chapter 3. Expanding the Wolfpack
Part II: Intelligence and Insight
Chapter 4. Emotionality
Chapter 5. Fight-or-Flight Club
Part III: Freedom
Chapter 6. Freedom from Addiction
Chapter 7. Sex, Relationships, and Freedom
Chapter 8. #MeToo and Manning Up
Chapter 9. Freedom from Implicit Bias and Identity Dissonance
Part IV: Truth
Chapter 10. Mental Health is Real Health
Chapter 11. Biology and Beyond
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
