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The essential difference : male and female brains and the truth about autism Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Highly recommended. I think that this book, along with The Female Brain should be read by every parent, child, husband, wife, employer, employee, and dating age adult — they bring love and understanding into our most important, and sometimes most frustrating relationships.
Rossman, M. A breezy and enlightening guide to women and a must-read for men. Start earning points for buying books! Our Most Anticipated Books of Add to Bookshelf. Read An Excerpt. By Louann Brizendine, M. Read by Kimberly Farr Best Seller. Jan 25, ISBN Add to Cart.
Buy from Other Retailers:. Mar 23, ISBN Audiobook Download. Paperback —. Last I checked I have a penis. Brizendine claims that her goal is to encourage compassion and understanding between men and women, but in fact I think her book is more likely to have the opposite effect. Compassion derives from understanding individuality and accepting diversity, not shoehorning people into rigid categories. The Male Brain gives sexism an air of scientific respectability.
As such, even though most of what it says is based on sound science, the presentation makes the book very dangerous indeed. View all 6 comments. Aug 02, David Rubenstein rated it really liked it Shelves: audiobook , psychology. While this book started out slow, it got better as the author went through the stages of male brain development.
And I learned something from this book. In the section on middle-aged married life, a couple went for marriage counseling. The wife recently got a promotion to a higher-paid, higher-stress position. She ranted at her husband about the problems she was having at work.
When the husband tried to logically solve her problems, the wife claimed that he wasn't even listening to her. She want While this book started out slow, it got better as the author went through the stages of male brain development. She wanted him to listen and give emotional support. However, he tried giving her well-intentioned advice to solve her problems. She would have none of that.
I suddenly realized that this was very reminiscent of my life, and the relationship to my wife. I recommend this book to both men and women. It gives very well thought-out discussions about the differences between male and female brains. It rings very true to me. I didn't read this book--I listened to an audiobook version. Unfortunately, I think that the version I listened to was abridged. I would have preferred to listen to a full version.
Oh well. Jan 30, Angela rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction. This audio book enlightened me and made me wish I'd read it before I got married or even once I started dating. I've heard parts of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," but I like this book better because it deals with the scientific, biological differences rather than gender stereotypes.
I thought the study based in Utah about men's blood pressure actually going down from warm touch was interesting. It helped me to understand why sex is such a need for men. They are hardwired to need it j This audio book enlightened me and made me wish I'd read it before I got married or even once I started dating. They are hardwired to need it just as much as food. Also, I found out that if I were a lizard, I'd want to partner with a blue-throat lizard - the one who is true to his mate. The orange-throat lizard forms a harem for mating and the yellow-throat lizards sneak in to mate with different female lizards.
You want a spouse who is true blue! I plan on listening to "The Female Brain" with my husband. Aug 05, Spencer rated it liked it. I can believe that men are hardwired to look at bazooms.
But I dont buy her biological determinism. You can make a strong case for it in most of the animal kingdom but it seems such a small motive in humans. That thinking drives me nuts. Perhaps she w I can believe that men are hardwired to look at bazooms. Perhaps she would say that our desire for sex, although restrained or amplified or deviant, is still, at its core, a desire to spread our DNA. And we have then taken that natural push that everyone has to procreate, and by cultural means or whatever, have turned sex into something else.
But that we are still being driven by our primate brain to spread our DNA, it's just that the mind is too stupid? Anyways, nice try, but jeepers, step back a few paces. I want to read the best book that uses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding men, written by the best mind, preferably in comic book form.
All these words make my head hurt. View all 3 comments. Nov 26, Morgan Blackledge rated it really liked it. I can see that a lot of people, some of whom I have high regard for did not particularly care for this book. I have to break with the pack on this one and come out as a fan.
I completely understand the criticism. Especially some of the reviews that took issue with the fact that the book offers a narrow, cartoonish stereotype of heterosexual male behavior. I get it. I totally do. And I agree. But I have to admit, I laughed out loud a bunch of times while listening to this thing I have the audio ve I can see that a lot of people, some of whom I have high regard for did not particularly care for this book.
But I have to admit, I laughed out loud a bunch of times while listening to this thing I have the audio version and I probably would have felt differently if I had committed the energy to reading it, but it was kind of a perfect listen. I'd say far from excluding gay and gender nonconforming men.
The book opens a market for another, equally fascinating book on the neurological substrates no pun intended of queerness. Given that the book "is what it is", I have to say that I heartily enjoyed it and would recommend it.
View 1 comment. Jun 02, Andrew rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction. Not quite as eye-opening or as comprehensive as the author's previous book "The Female Brain". Some notes: - At 7 months, boys can detect anger from their mother's face; at 12 months they have the ability to ignore that.
In one study, girls did calculations better if they physically moved while doing calculations. Is there a monogamy gene? Oct 25, Brandy rated it did not like it. I read this book to try to better understand my dad, my husband, my largely male coworkers and to a lesser extent my son. The book was awful. It didn't help and I wish I hadn't read it. If men are truly this weak willed and hormone ruled, I want to switch teams and join the lesbians.
Insulting to every intelligent, self controlled male I know. Apr 22, Allison Riding rated it liked it Shelves: behavioral-psych. Second time reading through bc things simply don't make sense lol Second time reading through bc things simply don't make sense lol Oct 22, Sanar rated it it was ok. Nov 22, Jonathan Karmel rated it it was amazing. I highly recommend this book. In the epilogue, the author states that she believes this book "can provide men with a sense of relief at finally being understood.
It was great to read a book about male behavior that was entirely positive philosophically , as opposed to what I find to be much more common these days: a bunch of normative claims that men and boys should be different from how they actually are.
This book is extremely well-written. There's I highly recommend this book. There's a map of the brain, a short glossary of the most important hormones, a chart laying out the different phases of a man's life, a short, clear introduction, seven concise, short, well-organized, very easy-to-read chapters describing the stages of a man's life in chronological order, and a very short epilogue and appendix at the end.
For my male brain, the organization made perfect sense, and I was easily able to sit down and read the entire book through in a couple of sittings. It is great to read a book that is pages followed by another pages of notes, references and index, instead of the more typical book that rambles on for pages and doesn't say much of anything. I wish all non-fiction books were this well-written. This book describes what men are typically like at different stages of life and details how specific hormones affect men's brains to make them that way.
As I was reading this, I reflected on my own behavior and imagined my body producing these different chemicals to make me feel and do these different things. But of course not all men are exactly the same, so I also wondered if perhaps I produce a little more of some of these hormones and a little less of others to create the variation of a man that I actually am.
For example, testosterone makes some men angry and violent. This book describes an act of road rage and an explanation for it. Our culture is full of depictions of violence and actual violence. Perhaps I have somehow repressed this, but I don't think that I have or have ever had any persistent thought about or desire to carry out acts of violence. Nor do I find it entertaining to watch other people do violent things. Acts of violence and aggression are actually just kind of a mystery to me.
So does that mean I have less testosterone or a different kind, or it affects me in a different way? On the other hand, I wonder if I feel the effects of dopamine and oxytocin more than other men.
This book describes how these hormones make men feel good huge simplification there. To me, these seemed like the kinds of feelings that make me feel so good that my life is kind of oriented around an addiction-like craving to activate these hormones. So does that mean these hormones affect me in an atypical way? I had never heard the term "andropause," so I was interested to learn that there was such a thing male analogue to menopause.
After reading this, I would definitely like to read The Female Brain by the same author. Jul 18, Lacey Louwagie rated it really liked it Recommends it for: anyone. Recommended to Lacey by: Tracy. Shelves: non-fiction. A lot of what I said for The Female Brain holds true for this one, too. Incredibly readable and consistently fascinating. There were times when I wanted Louann to go into more depth, but I read some of the notes in the back, which helped a bit with my thirst for more info.
And this book gave me some insight into working with adolescent boys that I was hoping to get and didn't at a workshop last month, so I was glad to have that gap filled in. Also like The Female Brain, the sweeping generalizations had to be taken with a grain of salt, but I do appreciate Louann's hope that these books will lead to more compassion between the sexes, as well as for oneself. It was also interesting to find myself relating to certain ways in which "the male brain" behaves, to be thinking, "I know what that's like!
I do wish that both "brain" books would have spent more time examining exceptions: what about men who don't express their anger often or don't make sex the priority in establishing a romantic relationship? What about women who don't see maintaining relationships as the most important goal of their lives?
It does seem like Dr. Brizendine picks the examples that best illustrate her points or the stereotypes, when there are undoubtedly lots of counter-examples out there.
But they're no replacement for actually talking to one another and getting to know each person, male or female, as an individual. Nov 22, Princessjay rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction , dropped-gave-up. Very easy to read, but based on very shaky grounds. For example, many of these cited studies are based tests done to a dozen men and women, mostly students in Western colleges the dark side to many a psychological paper. Such results are interesting and thought-provoking, but difficult to generalize.
And some other studies she cites are generalized from animal gold fish! I think we are pretty different creatures compared to gold fish.. Set aside.
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