Men in Therapy: The Challenge of Change

ISBN-13: 9780898624854 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 284 str.

Richard L. Meth; Robert S. Pasick; Robert S. Pasick

Opis

The few available books that deal specifically with men's issues tend to lack a central theoretical focus, are highly psychoanalytic in content, or simply do not provide specific guidelines for working with men. This unique and timely volume fills an important gap in the literature by demonstrating why change is often so difficult for them. It provides detailed guidelines for helping men initiate and sustain change in their personal, familial, and professional lives. The authors' approach is an integration of several theoretical schools including family systems, humanistic, experiential, and psychoeducational models. Using a psychosocial lens, they take men as individuals into account while examining the different roles males occupy as parents, husbands, workers, and friends. Separate chapters illustrate how each of these roles challenges men to confront many of the traditional and stereotypical messages that they have internalized from boyhood. The wide range of resulting problems--including depression, relationship conflicts, workaholism, and parenting difficulties--are discussed in relation to specific strategies which clinicians can employ to ameliorate them. Throughout, the authors use clinical vignettes and case examples to illustrate the ways practitioners can engage men and help them discover rewards of emotional vulnerability.

Recenzje

It will be helpful in understanding a strategy for changing male behavior. --Duncan Smith, Brown University; Course: Representation of Masculin

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I have given it as a gift and have recommended it again and again. It very sensitively and clearly elucidates men's experience in a way that is most instructive....A must-read for any therapist.

--AFTA Newsletter, 10/20/1991

Spis treści

I. UNDERSTANDING MEN IN U.S. SOCIETY.
1. The Road to Masculinity, Meth
2. Raised to Work, Pasick.
3. Men as Husbands, B. Gordon & Meth
4. Fathers and Fathering, Feldman
5. Friendship between Men, Pasick
II. MEN AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE.
6. Creating a Framework for Change, Allen & S. Gordon
7. Helping Men Understand Themselves, Pasick, S. Gordon & Meth
8. Helping Men in Couple Relationships, B. Gordon & Allen
9. Men and Sexuality, Meth
10. Men and Mothers, Allen
11. Men and Their Fathers, B. Gordon
12. Being a Father, B. Gordon
13. Changing the Nature of Friendships between Men, B. Gordon & Pasick

O autorze

Richard L. Meth, M.S.W. Director, Center for Marital and Family Therapy, School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT .
Robert S. Pasick, PhD Psychologist, family therapist, and consultant at the Ann Arbor Center for the Family. Conducts workshops on Gender Issues in the Workplace.