The Male Change of Life: It’s No Joke with Jed Diamond

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We have all heard jokes based on the affects of the female hormone cycle on women’s behavior. Yet women know these symptoms are not always a laughing matter. Jed Diamond, a licensed psychotherapist who has worked with men’s health issues for thirty-five years, is concerned about the decline in men’s health. He began to recognize constellations of symptoms in his male clients that led him to suspect this pattern of physical, behavioral and emotional disorders might be hormonally related. Later research supported his clinical observations and led to the recognition of what he calls, Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS). Diamond says, “We’ve only recently come to recognize that men also have a hormonal based change of life that affects all other aspects of our lives – psychology, interpersonal relationships, sexuality, and spirituality.” Diamond describes the importance of raising male children to become strong healthy men in a way in which they again feel connected to the earth, to the spiritual world, to themselves and to their important roles in society as men, and how that will benefit the individuals, society and the planet.

Jed Diamond is active internationally in the scientific understanding and treatment of men’s health issues. He is the founding director of the health program, MenAlive, and is the author of seven books on men’s health including Surviving Male Menopause: A Guide For Women and Men (Sourcebooks, Inc. 2000) and The Irritable Male Syndrome: Managing The Four Causes of Depression and Aggression (Rodale Books 2004). To learn more about the work of Jed Diamond go to www.menalive.com

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• How you can lengthen your life
• What four symptoms make up Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS)
• What accounts for the four times higher suicide rate of men from age 25 to 65 over women
• What three things are required for men over fifty to maintain good health
• How the absence of defined male initiation rituals negatively affects men and our society

Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 3/16/2007