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Video: Managing Fear and Grief in Uncertain Times

Many of us feel overwhelmed by difficult events. We find ourselves looking for ways to manage the complex emotions we experience. Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD, shows us how to actively cope with emotions like fear, grief, sadness, and loss during uncertain times. About This Video Feelings of fear, grief...

Podcast: Boys Have Borderline Personality Disorder Too

Today, Trevor is joined by Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD , director of McLean’s 3East Boys Intensive Program , to discuss gender as it relates to borderline personality disorder (BPD). Alan talks about the differences in how BPD presents itself in men vs. women. He also notes that there is work to do in...

Video: Mental Health in Boys and Young Men

For years, the general public and many in the psychiatric community have viewed mental illness in boys and mental illness in girls in very different ways. To illustrate, psychologist Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD , offered a simple test: “If I told you that a student in a classroom was pounding on a desk...

Video: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Boys and Young Men

Hosted by Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD , McLean Hospital. Although males constitute about half of people with BPD, the vast majority go undiagnosed, and as a consequence, our mental health system fails to provide optimal treatment for them. Dr. Fruzzetti discusses frequency and origins of the illness...