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Prologue: WHY FOCUS ON “TOXIC MASCULINITY?”

The Love and Power Institute posits a few fundamental ideas about the crisis threatening our sustainability as a species today: that overpopulation and unprecedented technological capabilities have led us to destabilize and degrade the earth until very drastic measures will

GENDER EMPATHY BALL
April 10, 2023
This gender empathy process grew out of Dr. Norman Brown’s teaching psychology of close relations …Read more
Emotional Versatility Contributes to Planetary Sustainability
January 25, 2023
Norman M. Brown and Marsha Hudson Introduction: Intelligence, love, aggression and men and women vis-à-vis …Read more
Emotional Maturity and Planetary Sustainability
December 16, 2022
Adapted from a sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz, Oct. 9, 2022 …Read more
1. Distress is Necessary for Stabilizing Love & Expanding Human Potential.
October 19, 2021
Adapted from Silvan Tomkins Affect, Imagery, Consciousness v1, p316f (New York, Springer, 2008). Distress is …Read more
4. Research on Shame when Triggered by Disrupted Relations
June 23, 2021
The popular conception of shame in America is a onsesided version of 1990s TV host …Read more
3. Shame’s Role in Character Building and Conflict. Avoidance and Attack-Other.
January 12, 2021
By Norman M. Brown, Ph.D. This the third in the series, Shame is Especially Useful. …Read more