Psychotherapy and Unstable Notions of Masculinity

What are our values as psychotherapists and clients regarding differing notions of masculinity? Furthermore, what stops us thinking about them? This book explores our thoughts and expressions about masculinity and determines whether they are inhibited and indeed prevented by cultural, social and intellectual forces.

List of contents

Introduction-Psychotherapy and healthy masculinity: Exploring our values, and what stops us thinking about them, when working psychotherapeutically with increasingly unstable notions of masculinity 1. When interiority is annulled: The healing of psychic pain, trauma and deprivation in a case of compulsion to child pornography 2. Everybody wants to be a manager: On masculinity, microfascism and the manosphere 3. Oh Father, My Brother: Reflections on Psychoanalysis, Class and Masculinity 4. 'The Spirit is a bone': Masculinity, authority, and ideology 5. What am I supposed to be? An essay on Masculinity 6. Interrogating and recuperating masculinities in therapeutic practice 7. Masculinity in the consulting room: A child psychotherapist's experiences

About the author

Del Loewenthal is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, and is Chair of hte Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC), London, UK. He is an existential-analytic psychotherapist, photographer and chartered psychologist, with a particular interest in phenomoenology. His books include Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling after Postmodernism (Routledge 2017) www.delloewenthal.com; www.safpac.co.uk .

Product details

• Authors: Del (University of Roehampton Loewenthal
• Assisted by: Loewenthal Del (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032478135
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247813-5
• No. of pages: 102
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis