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Jed Diamond is a renowned columnist, born in 1943. His work covers a wide range of topics, including gender, culture, psychology, and anthropology. Diamond is known for his profound insights and unique perspectives, often sparking public reflection on important social issues.

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“For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field of Gender-Specific Medicine was launched by cardiologist Marianne J. Legato, M.D. in 1997 when she recognized that a gender-neutral approach could be harmful to both men and women.”

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“It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly.”

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“My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.”

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“Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.”

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“Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.”

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“For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.”

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“When someone comes to me seeking help I want to learn everything I can about them. I'm interested in their physical, emotional, interpersonal, social, sexual, economic, and spiritual aspects of their well-being. I want to know about their hopes and dreams as well as their stresses, fears, and challenges.”

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“Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.”

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“Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.”

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“A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.”

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“Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.”

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“I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.”

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“Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing.”

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“I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known healing practices.”

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“Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions into those energies and energy fields.”

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Book:Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well

Source: Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well

“See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our lives. We have the unique opportunity to write a new chapter in the history of humankind, to be active participants in shaping a new world.”

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Book:Men Alive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools

Source: Men Alive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools

“If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.”

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“If you want more love in your life, you could not find a better gift to give yourself, a friend, or a lover.”

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About the Author

Born: 1943
Known for: Columnist
Quotes: 18

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