Terrence Real

Terrence Real is a psychotherapist in private practice who also teaches couples and family therapy as a member of the senior faculty at the Family Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is co-director of the Harvard University Gender Research Project. He has written articles for national magazines, including Esquire and Redbook. His new book, I Don't Want to Talk About It, exposes the silent epidemic of depression among men, and offers hope for ending the pain and the shame.

Depression, Real contends, affects the lives of as many men as women, even though women are twice as likely to be treated. To avoid the stigma of depression's "unmanliness," men often hide their condition from family, friends, and even themselves.

Throughout the book, Real shares moving accounts of his own life -- from a painful boyhood, beaten and ignored by a depressed father, through a troubled manhood, disconnected and seeking solace in drugs, to his eventual healing -- a journey of self-awareness, grief, and acceptance.

Real lives with his wife and two sons in Newton, Massachusetts.
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