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Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced

psychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men -- that

men hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigma

of depression's "un-manliness." Problems that we think of as typically

male -- difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and

rage-are really attempts to escape depression. And these escape attempts only

hurt the people men love and pass their condition on to their children.

This groundbreaking book is the "pathway out of darkness" that these men and

their families seek. Real reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal

themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse. He mixes

penetrating analysis with compelling tales of his patients and even his own

experiences with depression as the son of a violent, depressed father and the

father of two young sons.

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