Valentine’s Day is celebrated as a day of love. For those who are in a loving, committed, relationship it is a time of special gifts, cards, and chocolates. For others, it is a time when we dream about real lasting love and hope it will be ours someday. Like many I grew up in a
Part 1 “We’ve had a unisex vision of the human genome. Men and women are not equal in our genome and men and women are not equal in the face of disease.” —David C. Page, MD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology In September 1965 checked into my room at U.C. San Francisco Medical School. I
I have been a marriage and family therapist for more than fifty years. I help men and women address two areas that most everyone must deal with these days—Our love lives and our work lives. Sigmund Freud recognized the importance of these two areas many years ago when he famously said, “Love and work are
If you have been following my writing, you know that I am a marriage and family counselor who specializes in working with men. That reality is surprising to many. When we think of love and marriage, most people think, consciously or subconsciously, that this is the province of women. But here is a secret I’ve
I was a junior in college at U.C. Santa Barbara in 1964 when I saw Anthony Quinn in the movie Zorba the Greek. I went to college to fulfill my parents dream that they never achieved, but really to learn the mysteries of life—in other words, sex, surfing, and what it meant to be a
When I began medical school in 1965 I had a vague notion that I wanted to become a healer and a subconscious desire to help men. It soon became clear that the medical education at U.C. San Francisco was more limited than I had hoped and I transferred to U.C. Berkeley where I eventually received
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