Bookmarks
Mad as Hell: The End of the Era of Male Entitlement
March/April 2014
The era of unchallenged male entitlement has come to an end, and many men are mad as hell. A new book provides context to help us deal with this anger in the consulting room.
Breaking The Spell
7 Questions to Ask When Therapy is Stuck
May/June 2013
When therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ trance, joining them in their myopic misery. Once there, our job is to break the spell, broaden the vision, and open ourselves to possibilities outside the tunnel.
Clinician's Digest
September/October 2012
- Analysis for autism - Researchers' reliance on college students - New off-label PTSD medications - Is manhood in danger
Case Study
How to Heal the Angry Brain: Mad Men
September/October 2012
Men with anger problems are generally highly reluctant clients who come to our offices only because they’ve gotten “the ultimatum” from their wives, girlfriends, or bosses. Fortunately, understanding the angry brain can help build their motivation for change.
Point Of View
Whatever Became of Feminism?: Harriet Lerner on the Legacy of the Women's Movement
January/February 2011
Whatever happened to feminism? Psychologist and bestselling author Harriet Lerner offers some perspective.
Shame-O-Phobia
Why Men Fear Therapy
May/June 2010
Shame is the least understood dimension of men's inner experience—by both men themselves and the people who live with them. This lack of understanding may be the key to why fewer than one-third of psychotherapy clients are male.
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Lions Without a Cause
Men's animal instincts don't fit the modern world
May/June 2010
Let's face it: love means something quite different to men and women. A look at other species of social mammals offers some remarkable insights into the biological underpinnings of this difference.
Women Treating Men
Therapy across the gender divide
May/June 2010
Gender shapes relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female.
Game On!
Bringing the locker room into the consulting room
May/June 2010
Although therapy is often considered a profession dominated by the female sensibility, a lifelong gym rat, much practiced in the arts of masculine aggression, applies the lessons of the basketball court in the consulting room.
From the Editor
May/June 2010
May/June 2010
It seems odd that after nearly 50 years of focusing on gender norms and how they affect women, the inner world of men would remain as dimly understood as it is, even by psychotherapists.
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