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One of the forces that create men’s depression is that men are not
supposed to be vulnerable.
True  
False  

 
In the majority of cases, biological vulnerability alone is enough to
bring about depression.
True  
False  

 
The National Institute for Mental Health reports that, in the United
States, 6 to 10 percent of the population is battling some form of
depression.
True  
False  

 
Men are four times more likely than women to take their own lives.
True  
False  

 
According to the author, many men fail to get help because their
symptoms do not fit the classic model of depression as described in the
DSM IV.
True  
False  

 
According to researcher, Martin Opler, “Masked depression is one of the
most prevalent disorders in modern American society, yet it is perhaps
the most neglected category in psychiatric literature.”
True  
False  

 
Covert depression is, at its core, a disorder of self-esteem.
True  
False  

 
Common compensation for shame, of feeling less than, is a subtle or
flagrant flight into grandiosity.
True  
False  

 
The turning to any substance, person or action to regulate one’s
self-esteem can not be called an addictive process.
True  
False  

 
Almost anything can be used defensively in covert depression to enhance
self-esteem.
True  
False  

 
Depressed people who use alcohol to keep their demons at arm’s length
are abusing the drug in a misguided attempt to dose themselves with a
socially accepted over-the-counter antidepressant.
True  
False  

 
According to Ernst Becker, in the masochistic position the person seeks
transcendence through submerging the self in an abundant other.
True  
False  

 
The addictive intoxications of merger and elevation provide the means by
which the covertly depressed man desperately tries to hold back his pain.
True  
False  

 
In the example of Damien, the author believes that Damien’s relationship
to sex and sexual activity was non-addictive.
True  
False  

 
The defenses one chooses to avoid shame often afford relief while
breeding more shame.
True  
False  

 
Overt depression, prevalent in women, can be viewed as externalized
oppression.
True  
False  

 
Covert depression, prevalent in men, can be viewed as internalized
disconnection.
True  
False  

 
For the covertly depressed man, what lies at the center of the defense
or addiction is the disowned overt depression he has run from.
True  
False  

 
The moment of contact with the disavowed pain is the first step toward
restoration.
True  
False  

 
Since Freud’s first formulation of depression as a source of mourning,
most theories have focused on early childhood and loss.
True  
False  

 
Rene Spitz coined the term hospitalism.
True  
False  

 
Prozac is more effective than earlier antidepressants when treating
major depression.
True  
False  

 
Primate infants who have been separated from their mothers show abnormal
changes on serotonin.
True  
False  

 
Passive trauma in boys is rarely extreme; it is however, pervasive.
True  
False  

 
Therapists working with combat veterans have reported that when a man is
subjected to trauma he sustains a double injury.
True  
False  

 
The degree to which a man relies upon addictive defenses to ward off
depression does not determine the degree of his abusiveness or
irresponsibility toward others.
True  
False  

 
Rather than attempt to reparent the depressed men with which the author
works, he teaches them how to reparent themselves.
True  
False  

 
Trauma release work generally occurs after the client has unplugged his
addictive defenses.
True  
False  

 
Wives of depressed men tend to blame themselves.
True  
False  

 
Hubris is not described as the delusion of control that lies at the
heart of traditional masculinity.
True  
False  

 
A symptomatic family member is the bearer of news that a change must come.
True  
False