Terry Real

Professional Life
Terry Real is a psychologist, author, and teacher who focuses on men’s issues and couples therapy. He is the author of the ground-breaking book, I Don’t Want To Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, which offers expert advice for men facing the challenges of depression. The book, which achieved immense success, led Real to realize the importance of addressing this issue on a larger scale. In 2002, he founded the Relational Recovery Institute, as a way to offer healing and wholeness to men through their own resources, and with the support and engagement of the parents and partners in their lives.

Real is Director of the Gender Relations Program in Arizona and also serves as a faculty member at the Family Institute in Cambridge. Real has published several other books on male issues and in 2007 released his most recent book, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work. Real maintains a private practice in Massachusetts and continues to present lectures on relationship issues and to teach men how to achieve a fully rewarding and satisfying life.

Real has been recognized by his peers as a pioneer in bringing to light the often understated and hidden psychological issues that face men in and out of relationships. His expertise has offered hope to millions of men and helped repair countless damaged relationships. He has been featured on national television programs and his most recent work with male clients has been made into a documentary titled All Men Are Sons.

Contribution to Psychology
In his latest book, Terry Real shares powerful tools that empower a woman to assert herself in her relationship with a man, thereby satisfying his needs and her own. As women have gained prestige, prominence, and independence in recent decades, many men struggle to understand and accept their new role in a relationship. Real encourages men to live up to their own expectations and become the fully competent people they are capable of being. He teaches women how to communicate in effective, non-threatening, and revealing ways to the men in their lives.

Real has spent decades helping couples transform their disintegrating relationships into dynamic and passionate partnerships. He has worked with men, boys, and families to repair the damage of depression and bring healing to people who once faced despair. His pioneering efforts, his human touch, and his years of expertise provide a beacon of hope and opportunity for all men and women. Recently, Real expanded his efforts to reach those in need by founding Real Relational Solutions, an organization that provides services to families, couples, and organizations in order to form stronger, healthier relationships.

Terry Real Featured on GoodTherapy.org

In March, 2011 Terry Real presented The New Rules of Marriage, a GoodTherapy.org Web Conference available to clinicians for CE credits.

Books by Terry Real

• I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (1998)
  
• How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women (2002)
• The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work (2008)