Clinical psychologist William Pollack believes that, due to harmful myths regarding manhood in American society, boys are dangerously shortchanged when it comes to learning about the healthy expression of emotions and feelings. Though often untrue, influential stereotypes, such as "the rascal and the scamp" in childhood, and the supposed teen ...
The bestselling author of "Real Boys" and "Real Boys' Voices" now presents a definitive handbook to help readers understand boys today. Includes exercises, charts, and summaries.
The author of the best selling REAL BOYS presents interviews he conducted with boys and young men throughout the United States. In their own voices, the boys share their thoughts and feelings on such subjects as peer pressure, school violence, parental relationships, body image, and growing into manhood.
For the first time in one volume, the leading voices in the study of male psychology authoritatively detail how men's roles are created and how men's attempts to live up to these unhealthy and unrealistic models of masculinity warp men and society. . Inspired by feminist scholars who revolutionized our understanding of women's gender roles, the ...
Over the past three decades, women have strived to find and articulate their own true nature. In this thoughtful and challenging work, two Harvard psychiatrists attempt to do something similar for men, to redefine masculinity without swagger, resentment, or a false sense of correctness.
The culture of traditional psychotherapy has required the expression of feelings and behaviors that conflict with aspects of the traditional male role. This groundbreaking book explores the psychological sources of men's emotional difficulties, explains how to overcome men's resistance to therapy, and describes a range of psychotherapeutic ...
Moving beyond the simple, untested pieties of Robert Bly and Sam Keen, the renowned contributors to this book outline an empirically based model of male psychology. The book shows how contradictory definitions of the male gender can create stress, confusion, and even health problems for men and helps therapists address such problems as domestic ...
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