Male Menopause

by Jed Diamond

Book Overview

Compelling, personal, and solidly supported, this book takes a look at the newly coined phenomenon "male menopause". Therapist and author Jed Diamond uses personal interviews, sound research and studies, and poignant experiences from thousands of men to tackle this groundbreaking subject.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570711437
• ISBN13: 9781570711435
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

This book's time has finally arrived

When the author published this book in the nineties, the oldest among the leading-edge baby boomers were still in their early fifties. Today, millions more are confronting and crossing the 55 marker, and this book has much greater relevance to an aging and influential cohort. Men in my network have been realizing the significance of andropause in personal and profound ways, and most are now searching for answers to the complex male questions about midlife. This book answers questions that barely surfaced ten years ago and provides men with knowledge and encouragement. The author's sensitivity to this passage is profound, and he gives readers many reasons for optimism, as well as strategies to manage a significant life stage. To those who criticized this book as mere pop psychology, I say wait a few more years and then you'll get it.

The first real book to talk completely about Male Menopause

Male Menopause written by Jed Diamond is the first book to seriously and completely alert men and women about this very real phenomenon - Male Menopause. As the editor and founder of HotFlash! the perimenopause/menopause web site and online support group I know first hand the effects of hormonal changes in women. They can be very devastating and change a woman's life. The same is true for men. I applaud Jed's work because he takes a subject, male menopause and drags it out from the "taboo" closet and forces us to look at it. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Jed and have found that there are millions of men and their partners suffering in silence about this change of life. Male Menopause, hallmarked by lowered testosterone levels, can leave a man depressed, scared, anxious, moody, lose sexual interest and have problems getting and sustaining erections ( this is very distreesing for men). Jed's book alerts us to this health issue and we all must take this seriously. His book speaks to the problems men have with lowering tesosterone levels and bodily changes; we must recognize this as seriously as we do for women in perimenopause and menopause. In talking with hundreds of women every day and through my media appearances and articles, I find that men too are going thorugh "something" as women are experincing perimenopause and menopause. Many people think this is just a phase or "mid-life" crsisi" but it is more. Like perimenopause male menopause must be discussed openly and with intelligence; Jed Diamiond does just that.

This This book was useful, clear, and helpful

It defines and demystifies the controversial issue of male menopause. The book is practical, powerful, and passionate.

Excellent coverage of a misunderstood subject

Technically of course there is no male menopause, but men go through many physical and psychological changes at midlife. Diamond is thorough in his explanations of what has been known for years in Europe as viropause or andropause. This is a valuable and much needed book that fills a void and dispells ignorance. Kudos to Diamond.