Jed Diamond, Ph.D.
July 09, 2009
Williits, California
I have been helping men, and the women who love them, for the last 44 years. I've written 8 books, including Male Menopause, The Irritable Male Sy... (More)
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707 459-5505
Writer, Researcher, psychotherapist
Men's health, Gender-specific Medicine, Irritable Male Syndrome, Singing, Reading Racquetball
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Wasn't going to weigh in on this one, Jed, but I do feel that some of what was going on with this very disturbed individual does overlap with IMS and I truly appreciate your presentation which I ho...
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JedDiamondPhD Replied:
My experience is that people can get clean and sober if they have a belief in some higher power. If they have had a strong connection with Christ or Allah, that works. Others don't have a traditional religious connection so make their higher power, the group, or "spirit" or the goddess or some other form. I don't know if there are any studies about which type of higher power is most effective.
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JedDiamondPhD Replied:
My experience is that people can get clean and sober if they have a belief in some higher power. If they have had a strong connection with Christ or Allah, that works. Others don't have a traditional religious connection so make their higher power, the group, or "spirit" or the goddess or some other form. I don't know if there are any studies about which type of higher power is most effective.
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John Shore Replied:
It seems like it would be "easier"/more efficacious to turn for enduring strength to a "higher power" that sort of already comes with a whole, readily accessible theological system attached to it, if you see what I mean. Do you know if a vague "higher power" is or isn't as helpful to drug addicts and alcoholics as, say, Christ or Allah (or working within the Buddhist system, or whatever).
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John Shore Replied:
I wonder if drug addicts and alcoholics tend to remain sober longer--or have an easier time remaining sober--if their "higher power" is one that is defined by a traditional religion. I wonder, in other words, if it's easier to say sober if your God is Christ, or Allah, say, than if you're basically having to make-up the qualities and definitions of your "higher power" as you.
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JedDiamondPhD Replied:
John, Only in a society that still has an unconscious (or semi-conscious) acceptance of child sexual abuse, could we defend such actions. We go on tirades about "scum of the earth perverts" with images of weird guys in trench coats. As a therapist who has been treating the effects of child abuse for more than 40 years, the face of abuse is as likely as not the one we see in the mirror.
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JedDiamondPhD Replied:
John, Only in a society that still has an unconscious (or semi-conscious) acceptance of child sexual abuse, could we defend such actions. We go on tirades about "scum of the earth perverts" with images of weird guys in trench coats. As a therapist who has been treating the effects of child abuse for more than 40 years, the face of abuse is as likely as not the one we see in the mirror.
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