"The ideas in THE MINDS OF BOYS seem to be catching on.  The Gurian Institute has trained more than 15,000 teachers."

 
"In THE MINDS OF BOYS, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens target their advice to both parents and teachers, and stress practical information, from nutritional guidelines to recommended classroom layouts."


"Parents perplexed by their bright sons who constantly struggle in school will find hope in The Minds of Boys."


"In The Minds of Boys, Gurian and Stevens use biological research and more than 20 years of classroom experience to present a detailed plan of how to most effectively teach boys."
 

"Parents of boys have always known it in their hearts. Boys learn differently from girls. Michael Gurian not only knows it and can prove it, but has ideas about how to help boys succeed.  His THE MINDS OF BOYS, written with Kathy Stevens, shows how to help boys in the classroom and at home."
 

"THE MINDS OF BOYS...a call for a reassessment of how we educate our sons (that) is long overdue."


"The Minds of Boys provides a valuable service not only to parents and teachers but also policy makers.  Boys today are languishing academically. Gurian and Stevens provide important analysis and practical solutions."


"The Mind of Boys is an excellent read.  I found it enlightening not only as a neuroscientist but also as the mother of a young boy.  It has absolutely changed the way that I think about boys (and men) and the ways in which they express their enthusiasm for life."


"The Mind of Boys is a gift to parents, teachers and anyone else involved in raising or nurturing boys.  It is filled with cutting edge neuroscience, yet has the warmth of a wise professional."
 

"In The Minds of Boys, a follow-up to his best-selling The Wonder of Boys, therapist and social philosopher Michael Gurian, along with Kathy Stevens, a specialist in education and child development, makes a strong case for an educational crisis involving boys. {The Minds of Boys} is logically organized, readable, and meticulously documented."
 

"I am a member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County NC Board of Education.  I just completed your book THE MINDS OF BOYS, and have found it very interesting and applicable to what we are facing in our district.  I have asked our Superintendent to purchase your book for every board member and member of his senior leadership team.  I hope that in reading the book, our school leaders will feel as I do that we need to implement many of the strategies you recommend.  Thanks for writing such a good book and inspiring me to push this issue to the forefront in our district."


"Michael Gurian had the courage to talk about boys before it was popular.  His new book, THE MINDS OF BOYS, written with educator Kathy Stevens, takes this work further. It articulates the issues from a brain-based approach, with supporting research. It then gives very practical examples for interventions. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with boys professionally or personally.  I found the book to be extraordinarily helpful.
 

"The Minds of Boys is a wonderfully practical and enjoyable book to read. I thoroughly enjoyed its insights, data and practical strategies.  It will help empower parents to demand social justice for boys in school."


"In The Minds of Boys, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens provide a very readable description of the current academic dilemma affecting a large number of boys." 
 

"THE MINDS OF BOYS is a compassionate and well-considered exploration of the educational crisis many of our boys face.  It provides a giant leap in our empathy for what it means to be a boy in our culture.  For parents and teachers especially, this book helps them provide boys support through their developmental stages.  I regret that I did not have this book in hand while raising my son."


"THE MINDS OF BOYS is a must read for educators from preschool through young adulthood, and any parent or grandparent who is raising a boy.  This book is well researched, offering concrete ways to help our boys develop and flourish in and out of school."

 
"Reading THE MINDS OF BOYS is a great act of love you can do for your son."


"Wonderfully readable, The Minds Of Boys fills a great void for parents and educators by offering practical ways to change the developmental course for boys at risk. Gurian and Stevens show us that we don't have to surrender our boys to depression or school failure: {it's} an essential piece of school reform!"

 
"THE MINDS OF BOYS provides invaluable information for parents and educators to help them improve boys' academic and social success."


"Gurian's book {WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING?} explores the fascinating science of the difference in male and female brains and how differences dictate behavior. His hope is that, by illuminating the construction of each gender's amygdala, cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, et al., not to mention the action of our hormones, we can better negotiate the battle of the sexes."


"There is now scientific proof (about men) in a new book titled WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING?, which I cannot recommend highly enough."


"WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING? is filled with illuminating specific examples."


"WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING? explains how the brain, in conjunction with psychological and sociological factors, drives a man's behavior.  Gurian's research is both fascinating and eye opening."


"While plenty of books offer to help us understand the opposite sex from a psychological perspective, this one tackles the topic from a neurological one. Family therapist Gurian (The Wonder of Boys) takes readers on a voyage through the male brain, offering "nature-based" explanations-that is, well-established biological tenets-for how men think and act differently from women (e.g., why they love to tinker with gadgets and why they remember fewer details about an event). In the process, readers discover almost as much about women and how their brains function...(WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING?) is recommended for all public libraries."


"Like a guide through a secret forest, WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING? leads the nonscientist through the complex world of brain science and relates it to some of the most frustrating sources of conflict between men and women in relationships."
 
"In WHAT COULD HE BE THINKING?...Michael Gurian has completed some incredible and useful research.  Gurian has answered questions of vital importance."

"Best known for several earlier books, including "The Wonder of Boys" and "The Wonder of Girls" — in which he explored how biological differences between the male and female brains influence childhood behavior — Michael Gurian has turned his attention to grown-ups, saying that understanding the inner workings of the male mind can help couples live in harmony."


"Finally!  Figure out your husband!  Men are such a puzzle.  Are they serious when they say, "Don't worry so much, the kids are fine?"  Actually, yes, says Michael Gurian, a noted author and therapist, in his new book, What Could He Be Thinking? (St. Martins Press).  Using research on male and female brains, he explains some perplexing behavior, like why men can remember last year's baseball stats but not yesterday's conversation, and more."


"Just when I thought a man's way of thinking could never be fully understood, Michael Gurian comes to the rescue and offers exciting, new insights into the minds of the men we love.  Whether you are contemplating marriage, are already married, or just interested in figuring out men, What Could He Be Thinking? is the book for you."


"What Could He Be Thinking? is an insightful, often funny, and easy to read book. It offers many insights into the male mind, which can be very helpful to women and men alike."


"What Could He Be Thinking? is a well-written, down-to-earth guide to men in an era of concern for women, and a guide to biology in an era focused on psychology.  Gurian gives us science's bottom line about how understanding the male brain can create better marriages and parenting.  If you have a father, son or husband you want to love more fully, start with What Could He Be Thinking?"



"The Miracle: A Visionary Novel" - Psychotherapist Gurian, the bestselling author of numerous parenting and psychology books (The Wonder of Girls; The Soul of the Child), has written a riveting supernatural suspense novel that tracks the efforts of a psychic to find a serial killer in Spokane, Washington. The novel begins when a clairvoyant, cancer-stricken boy is run down by a car. At the accident scene where he dies, an other-worldly light hovers over his body and suffuses the neighborhood. Soon afterward, his nurse, Beth Carey, has visions of children being murdered. Her hallucinations turn out to be premonitions; a serial murderer who calls himself the Light Killer begins to terrorize Spokane, killing several children and sending letters to the local paper explaining his garbled philosophy ("The Creator inhales darkness and exhales light. This is how I feel when I hold the [dying] child in my arms, that I can breathe again, breathe Light again"). Beth, suspecting that the killer was influenced by the same mysterious light that gave her psychic powers, searches for him, hoping to forge a connection with this doppelganger and keep him from killing again. Gurian infuses the story with his own ideas about the divine and the dawning of a new kind of human being with spiritual intuition....Even skeptics will find the murder mystery gripping.  Gurian delicately ups the tension with each successive murder, and the climax is stunning."

"THE SOUL OF THE CHILD is an absolutely brilliant and lovely book.  Practical and scientific. A must read for every parent who wants to raise a spiritual child."


"This is a tremendous work!  A unique bridge between science and religion, it is both visionary and good common sense.  Its inspiring stories, beautiful prose, and touch of genius will change the way we look at children, and ourselves, forever.  Gurian's talents as a child advocate, parenting expert and social philosopher have all combined here into what I feel is one of the most important books of the new millennium."


"Bravo to Michael Gurian for reminding us of the sacredness of our work as parents and the vivid lives of our children's souls.  If you have any doubt about the reality of the soul, read THE SOUL OF THE CHILD."


"In THE WONDER OF GIRLS, therapist Gurian probes the unique aspects of girls' emotional, social and physical development in a follow-up to his bestselling THE WONDER OF BOYS.  He urges parents to use a new model in raising girls (he calls it "Womanism") in which girls establish a three-family system (the nuclear family, the extended family and institutions such as church and school) that will meet their need for intimate relationships. Gurian's arguments (will ) stir controversy and inspire thought."

"Gurian's attention to the physiology of how girls develop is tapping into a growing field among researchers...The Wonder of Girls has won universal praise for Gurian's focus on the importance of maintaining personal connections with girls."


"I was grateful to get to the advice section of The Wonder of Girls, which categorizes girls by age...wonderfully useful advice....Gurian is at his best when it comes to the nuts and bolts of rearing a daughter."


"In THE WONDER OF GIRLS, Michael Gurian has written an eminently sensible book."


"(THE WONDER OF GIRLS) is explosive, bound to be controversial, a powder keg...Gurian raises interesting questions."



"Finally, a sensitive and scientifically knowledgeable writer has given us a book on girls. Gurian's engrossing book, THE WONDER OF GIRLS, is important not only for parents, but for anyone who cares for, educates, or makes policy affecting the lives of girls and women."


"In THE WONDER OF GIRLS, Michael Gurian has given us a gift, an exciting book that parents of daughters will consult over and over again.  Gurian leads us in a new direction as he challenges parents to understand and value our daughters' desire for attachment.  Women will recognize themselves as well as their daughters in this thought-provoking book.  Bravo, Michael!"


"I found the THE WONDER OF GIRLS a wonderful addition to the literature already available on raising girls. What I liked best was its constant correlation of developing biology in women to their psychological struggles, giving the authenticity that is sorely needed. Not only that, it gives parents and professionals alike a new framework to understand girls' development from a multi-perspective. I also especially liked how it provided concrete ways that fathers and mothers could understand their daughters' progress through different stages, and to understand that their lives are a progression along with brain development capacities. I heartily endorse this new balanced way to understand how wonderful the capacities of girls and women are, and so vital to the nurturing of their infants, families and society. Bravo!"


"BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY! offers valuable and much needed tools to provide boys and girls with true equal educational opportunity."


"Most Americans are intensely concerned about the state of our educational system...BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY! will be picked up parents eager to learn more."

"The insights and innovations in BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN DIFFERENTLY! have been applied in our classrooms with phenomenal success, leading to better academic performance and better behavior."


"Filled with stories and practical advice for parents and teachers of adolescent boys...I recommend "A Fine Young Man" to those who want to raise fine young men."

"THE WONDER OF BOYS is a provocative book that electrifies the debate over how this nation raises sons."


"THE WONDER OF BOYS will help future generations open the lines of communication between men and women by giving us what we need to raise strong, responsible and sensitive men."


"What Mary Pipher has done to raise our national consciousness in her book REVIVING OPHELIA, Michael Gurian has done in THE WONDER OF BOYS."


"Michael Gurian's information is critical, and presented with both seriousness and humor. He has a way of helping the audience not only hear and understand, but also feel comfortable to disagree!"


"Michael Gurian is a fascinating, captivating speaker who clearly knows his material. I could listen to him for hours!"


"I always enjoy listening to Michael Gurian - he has such an easy and humorous speaking style, and such an important message!"


"From the beginning of time, parents and sensitive teachers have observed differences in the behavior, learning style, and focused interests of girls and boys. Defying the political correctness that is today's common wisdom, Gurian and the contributing authors draw on emerging neuroscientific data to justify these perceptions. While never allowing us to lose sight of the reality of individual differences, they suggest creative ways to modify the learning environment to encourage a broader spectrum of achievement in both gender groups."