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Deepening Psychotherapy with Men

Name: Deepening Psychotherapy with Men
Author: Fredric E. Rabinowitz
ISBN: 9781557988331

by Fredric E. Rabinowitz, Sam V. Cochran

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Overview

Deepening Psychotherapy With Men is a source of theoretical and clinical guidance for helping male clients look inward to resolve the core conflicts of their lives. The conflict areas most common for men include ambivalence about dependence in close relationships, prohibitions against feeling sadness, gender role demands that conflict with emotional needs, and the common masculine aversion to "being" as opposed to "doing." The book includes methods and techniques for working through these four conflicts and deepening therapy in both individual and group settings. Fredric E. Rabinowitz and Sam V. Cochran integrate knowledge of male gender role socialization with psychodynamic, existential, and experiential theories to create an effective approach to therapy that balances the impact of male culture with each client's individual psychological history. Done with empathy, the methods and interventions described in this book will reconnect distracted, anxious, violent, and frozen men to emotional places they have long forgotten. The authors provide an abundance of case dialogues illustrating these techniques in practice.

Synopsis

This book focuses on four common areas of conflict for men: concern about dependence in relationships; social prohibitions against feeling sadness; gender role demands; and the need to "do" rather than "be." Rabinowitz (psychology, U. of Redlands, CA, also in private practice) and Cochran (director, University Counseling Service, U. of Iowa) incorporate methods to deal with these areas in both individual and group settings, offering theoretical and practical suggestions for starting therapy, working through the issues, and terminating therapy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)