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When Life Changes Men
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Henrik Kruse
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Life Changes Men is a collection of ten powerful psychotherapeutic stories about men facing life at its most fragile.
Each story is rooted in real conversations from the author's work as a therapist with men affected by cancer-whether through their own diagnosis, a loved one's illness, or the loss of a partner. Written as fiction but grounded in lived experience, the book offers a rare and intimate insight into how men confront fear, grief, and change.
With warmth, subtle humor, and psychological depth, these stories explore more than illness. They reveal the quiet struggles of masculinity-how men carry responsibility, avoid vulnerability, and ultimately search for meaning when life no longer follows the expected path.
This is not only a book about cancer.
It is a book about being a man when everything changes.
About the author
Henrik Kruse holds a Master's degree in Theology and is trained as a family therapist from the Kempler Institute.
He has spent many years working with cancer patients and their families, specializing in men's psychological responses to illness, loss, and crisis. As the founder of a large network for men with cancer, he has gained unique insight into the emotional realities behind the stories in When Life Changes Men.
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