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Avrum Weiss, Ph.D.

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Avrum Weiss, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and speaker who writes about the internal lives of men and their intimate relationships.

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Recent Posts

The Difference Between Anger and Abuse

Learning how to tell the difference between anger and abuse is important in any relationship.

Buying the Perfect Gift

Personal Perspective: Giving and receiving gifts is often stressful for couples, evoking our most primitive desires to be well-loved.

Creating Opportunities for Men to Be More Involved With Their Children

A simple exercise to help balance gender roles in your family.

Helping Men Overcome Their Fear of Women

Men can recognize their fears to gain greater intimacy.

What Men and Women Don’t Understand About Each Other

Much conflict in relationships is due to women not understanding that men are afraid of them and men not understanding that women are trying to connect.

Much conflict in relationships is due to women not understanding that men are afraid of them and men not understanding that women are trying to connect.

Unpacking the Epidemic of Parental Estrangement

The epidemic of parental estrangement: The generation who is afraid of their children.

The epidemic of parental estrangement: The generation who is afraid of their children.

Fragile Masculinity and Hypermasculine Defenses

How men use hypermasculine defenses to protect a fragile sense of masculinity.

How men use hypermasculine defenses to protect a fragile sense of masculinity.

Early Childhood Origins of Men’s Fears of Women

Men's fears of women in intimate relationships may stem from their earliest relationships with their mothers.

Men's fears of women in intimate relationships may stem from their earliest relationships with their mothers.

Revitalize Your Relationship by Getting Unstuck From Traditional Roles

Both men and women tend to see themselves trapped in this dance and dependent on their partner for release. However, either partner can unilaterally change the script at any time.

Both men and women tend to see themselves trapped in this dance and dependent on their partner for release. However, either partner can unilaterally change the script at any time.

Why Men Can Get Defensive and Controlling in Arguments

New understandings can help couples break out of repetitive patterns of conflict in their relationships.

New understandings can help couples break out of repetitive patterns of conflict in their relationships.

November 2024 magazine cover

The Perfectionism Trap

When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.

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