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HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
"It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounded feeling function--our inability to find joy, worth, and meaning in life. Robert A. Johnson, the celebrated author [and Jungian analyst], revisits two medieval tales and illuminates how this feeling function has become a casualty of our modern times. Johnson tells the story of the Wounded Fisher King...
2) Better boys, better men: the new masculinity that creates greater courage and emotional resiliency
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Language
English
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Description
"How modern forms of masculinity are harming men-and what we can do about it"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Each year, millions of men and women fall prey to depression. While the disorder has been called "psychiatry's most treatable condition," less than one in five get help. In recent years, the silence surrounding depression in women has begun to lift, but only now, with this powerful groundbreaking work, does psychotherapist Terrence Real expose a virtual epidemic of the disorder in men.Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
There's a lot a guy needs to know as he grows up and makes his way in the world. And a lot of it, he wouldn't necessarily want to have to ask about because then, well, people would know he didn't know what he was doing! For all the guys out there who want to have it all together, Jonathan Catherman offers this collection of one hundred step-by-step instructions on almost everything a guy needs to know, including how to · wear cologne correctly ·...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Seeking to learn that masculinity is not defined by the size of his muscles but by the size of his heart, Stein confronts his effete nature by doing a 24-hour shift with LA firefighters, going hunting, rebuilding a house, enduring three days of basic training with the Marine Corps, and going into the ring with UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In No Apologies, veteran author and professor, Anthony Esolen, issues a powerful defense of the virtues of masculine strength. From the thankless brute force that erected buildings, paved roads, and cleared ground, to the boundless energy of youth that compelled centuries of global exploration, to the father's embodied authority as protector, director, and exemplar of law and justice, Esolen shows how civilization has rested upon the strength of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles.
There are hundreds of books on parenting, but books about parenting identity are nearly all about what it's like to be a mother. Shapiro provides an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a...
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Language
English
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With a foreword from acclaimed psychologist, Dr Elaine Aron, comes a timely and invaluable book that will help redefine masculinity and reveal how high sensitivity can enrich men's lives, their communities, and the lives of those who love them. Highly sensitive people think deeply, empathize instinctively, and behave in an ethical way that benefits everyone. Today, with the negative effects of toxic masculinity and aggressive behaviour in evidence...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social ills, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation of men in prisons to male dominance in business and politics. It's a lot to pin on a simple molecule. Yet your testosterone level doesn't in fact predict your competitive drive or tendency for violence, your appetite for risk or sex, or your strength or athletic prowess. It's neither the biological essence of...
Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Argues that men have a lot to say to women about sex, equality in the workplace, raising boys, and the lie of "toxic masculinity," but modern feminism and politically correct culture have silenced them. The "war on men" has disrupted relationships and caused men to question their place in American society. To heal relationships it's necessary to respect the designed purposes of masculinity and feminity. The author speaks to women on men's behalf,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Boys will be boys," the saying goes--but what does that actually mean? Anthropologist Gutmann argues that predatory male behavior is in no way inevitable. Men behave the way they do because culture permits it, not because biology demands it. To prove this, he embarks on a global investigation of masculinity.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A young man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete--a mountain untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's final mountains to be conquered--as an act of heroic bravado, or foolishness. But instead, he finds himself dragged, by the undertow of memory, to Esplanada, the neighborhood he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an act that has run like...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
"Michael Ian Black takes a poignant look at manhood, written in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he leaves for college. Black offers a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love"--
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The New Alpha Male helps men do the unappetizing work of self-inquiry by framing it as a pre-game warm up. Here readers "untrain" themselves about assumptions they might take as absolute truths in six areas: Culture, Addiction, Stories, Projection, Fear, and Spirituality. The game then heats up in the first half, in which Lance introduces the first three Principles of Perseverance: Accountability, Integrity and Compassion. After a half-time break,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
To better understand the men in his family, a journalist dives into hunting culture for one year, during which he learns that you can be an active father, loving spouse, and hunter without being mistaken for a gun-toting lunatic.
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