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This is a story of a man who enters a therapeutic relationship for reasons of which he is not sure. All his life, he had chosen not to grandstand his extraordinary dilemma. Rather, he proceeded in isolation, privately designing a way to endure his almost incomprehensible set of circumstances. He struggled alone, researching, networking, looking for answers, explanations, friends, looking for someone to listen, to believe him. When he finally begins therapy for the first time in forty-one years, he initiates the opportunity for his life to take final shape. Together, they learn what it means to listen and to really hear what someone is saying. They learn how it feels to be a man and a woman in a world that isn't always sure what that means. They learn what it means to be tolerated by a society that makes every day living an unimaginable chore. It is a story, ultimately, of acceptance and forgiveness.

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Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW, founder of The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC (postpartumstress.com), and well-known, international expert on the topic of postpartum depression, has been treating postpartum women and their families for over 28 years. A native of Saint Louis, MO., Karen has lived in the Philadelphia area since 1982 with her two children and her husband. In 1988 she founded The Postpartum Stress Center, the premier treatment and professional training center for prenatal and postpartum depression & anxiety. In addition to her clinical practice, Karen provides specialized post-graduate training programs and inservices for healthcare professionals as well as consultation and supervision to therapists. She frequently lectures and continues to write on the topic of perinatal mental health. Her work has been featured in local and national magazines, numerous radio shows, local and national television shows, including Inside Edition, The Oprah Winfrey Show and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, The Katie Couric Show, NPR, Doctor Radio Sirius. She is co-author of the groundbreaking, This Isn't What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression, Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts, Tokens of Affection, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Perinatal Distress and author of Therapy and the Postpartum Woman, What Am I Thinking: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression and The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression, The Art of Holding: An Essential Intervention (in press, 2017).

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