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Midlife is the stage of generativity versus stagnation. As a man realizes that he has lived more than half of his life, he will look for new ways to be generative with his family, as a father, in his community, and to others in general. Otherwise, he runs the risk of stagnation.
There is little-published theory, research, or evaluation of men's programs for men at midlife. There is even less of these types of materials published about men at midlife involved in activities structured in a mythopoetic perspective or about men actively involved in mythopoetic men's work. This volume fills that void.
List of contents
Introduction
What is Mythopoetic Men's Work and Theory Building?Parallels Between Mythopoetic Men's Work/Men's Peer Mutual Support Groups and Selected Feminist Theories by Edward Read Barton
Beyond the Drum: An Exploratory Study of Group Processes in a Mythopoetic Men's Group by Steve R. Wilson and Eric Mankoski
Warriors and Fathers: ONCE WERE WARRIORS and the Mythopoetic Understanding of Men's Violence by Christopher J. Bullock
The Mythopoetic Interpretation of Texts: Hermeneutical Considerations by David B. Perrin
A Proposed Model for Comparing Writers in the Mythopoetic Branch of the Contemporary Men's Movement by Thomas M. Brunner
Silencing the Men's Movement: Gender, Ideology, and Popular Discourse by Joel Morton
Reconstructing Masculinity: Images and Life Stories of Men's Mutual Support Group Members by Eric Mankowski
Therapeutic ApplicationsThe Use of Myth and Quasi-Myth in Therapy by Ross Thomas Lucas
Working with Men from a Mythopoetic Perspective: An Integrity Therapy Framework by Nedra R. Lander and Danielle Nahon
Object Relations Perspectives of Masculine Initiation by Wesley Goodenough
Therapeutic Status of the Mythopoetic Approach: A Psychological Perspective by Daniel J. Richard
Research on the ManKind Project, Formerly Known as the New Warrior Network, and the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA)Collaborative Research with a Men's Organization: Psychological Impact, Group Functioning, and Organizational Growth by Eric Mankowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Christopher K. Burke, Sharon A. Hoover, and Clinton W. Anderson
Heuristic and Ethnographic Study of the Mankind Project: Initiating Men into a "New Masculinity: or a Re-packaging of Dominant Controlling Patriarchy? by Marty Pentz
Feminist Roundtable and ConclusionA Feminist Looks at the Men's Movement: Search for Common Ground by Holly Sweet
Men and the Search for Common Ground by John Rowan
Justice, Joy, and an End to the Gender Wars by Amanda Goldrick-Jones
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
About the author
EDWARD READ BARTON is in the Department of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
