By demonstrating the therapeutic power of men's groups, this book shows clinicians how to break down the barriers that often keep men from seeking help and exploring their emotions.

"In this book, Fredric E. Rabinowitz presents is Deepening framework, along with practical guidance for conducting group therapy with men. In Deepening group psychotherapy, men discover their hopes, fears, losses, frustrations, and traumas, aided by a clinician who uses attentiveness to language and the therapeutic relationship to engage and intervene. Traditional therapy, with its emphasis on vulnerable face-to-face sharing, presents challenges for men socialized to keep their emotional lives private. The framework helps clinicians find ways to break down the barriers that keep many men from seeking help and shows them how to explore their inner psychological workings. Through detailed therapy dialogues, readers will learn how to connect with men in group settings around issues such as relationships, fear of being dependent on others, grief and loss, sexual identity, pain, illness, and addiction."--Page 4 de la couverture.

This book 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. The authors 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. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

Rabinowitz and Cochran integrate knowledge of male gender role sociali zation with psychodynamic, existential, and experiential theories to c reate an effective approach to therapy that balances the impact of mal e culture with each clientFs individual psychological history. The met hods and interventions offered in this book will reconnect distracted, anxious, violent, and frozen men to emotional places they have long f orgotten. The authors provide an abundance of case dialogues illustrat ing these techniques in practice.

Dreams told in the group are conjoint individual and group creations. They are both influenced by the group atmosphere and may in turn influence it and the individual, promoting change and development. Dreams have a deepening effect on therapeutic work and, due to their unconscious content, they may represent the most authentic exchange between individual and group. This state-of-the-art book provides help for therapists encountering a dream told in their group. It covers the major theoretical perspectives for their understanding, as well as representing different psychological schools and their approaches to the technical issues of group dream therapy. Despite the variety of sources, the clinical approaches described complement each other, and the book details many case studies, including a first dream in the group, an unconscious meeting between women and men, and other polarities within the individual and the group.

Breaking Barriers in Counseling Men is a unique collection of personal and engaging contributions from nationally recognized scholars and clinicians with expertise in treating men. The editors have selected men’s clinicians who address areas as diverse as sexual dysfunction, male bonding over sports, father-son relationships, and counseling men in the military. Featuring a mix of clinical tips, personal anecdotes, and theoretical reframing, this book takes clinicians invested in these issues to the next level, breaking down barriers to connecting with men and getting them the help that is so often needed.

In this provocative volume, Dr. Florence W. Rosiello addresses erotic dynamics in the treatment relationship within the context of a two-person therapy, emphasizing the necessity of mutuality and emotional reciprocity between patient and therapist. With rich clinical illustrations, she demonstrates how the intimacy created by working within the sexual dimension of the therapeutic relationship may present opportunities for insight and growth that could easily be missed if one seeks to avoid these highly charged issues. Focusing on those patients who are predisposed to relating to others in a sexualized manner, Dr. Rosiello has discovered that mutual exploration of both the therapist's and the patient's subjective experience offers a valuable and effective means of enhancing the treatment.