This candid analysis shows how boys are brought up to both depAnd on and yet fear the perceived power they think women hold over them and, most importantly, how this prevents true emotional intimacy between men and women. Learn from their inspiring and instructive stories.

The Centerfold Syndrome: How Men Can Overcome Objectification and Achieve Intimacy with Women

Self-Help

Brooks, Gary R.

Jossey-Bass

Breaking down the barriers Most men are trained from earliest childhood to suppressemotional distress, to avoid the subtle signals of interpersonalconflicts, to experience humiliation at the first hint of failure,and most of all, to resist asking for help. In this much-neededbook, Gary Brooks shares his experience of working with resistantmale clients and shows how to overcome this resistance and achievepositive results. Brooks reveals how compassion, respect, empathy,and sensitivity to men's defenses help break down barriers and makethem amenable to the therapeutic process.

A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Volume Two of The New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling with Men offers clinicians practical advice for applying a wide variety of effective formats and modalities when working with male clients, including up-to-date information about cognitive, interpersonal, and integrative therapy, as well as group and family therapy. The Handbook also contains a wealth of information on such important topics as using psycho-educational principles and approaches, women therapists who work with male clients, and the critical dynamics of a male therapist and male client. In addition, this volume is filled with practical suggestions for working successfully with men from diverse cultural, sexual, and religious backgrounds.

The New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling with Men, A Comprehensive Guide to Settings, Problems, and Treatment, Volume Two

Good, Glenn E.

Bridging Separate Gender Worlds provides therapists with gender-sensitive techniques and interventions to help clients understand the challenges of today's confused gender expectations. This volume is applicable to individual, couples, and family therapy, and offers practical techniques to lead clients to an empathic understanding of their own and their partners' gender experiences. The authors offer three models of interventions for working with different types of clients. They also detail various methods that can be used within any type of therapy: the gender inquiry, the gender role journey, and the coevolution process. These practical solutions and techniques can help therapists transform angry confrontations and helpless confusion into non-blaming empathy and change.

Bridging Separate Gender Worlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together

Lusterman, Don-David

Nutt, Roberta L.

Amer Psychological Assn

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The Centerfold Syndrome: How Men Can Overcome Objectification and Achieve Intimacy with Women

A New Psychotherapy for Traditional Men

The New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling with Men, A Comprehensive Guide to Settings, Problems, and Treatment, Volume Two

Bridging Separate Gender Worlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together