Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood - Hardcover

Pollack, William S.

 
9780375501319: Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

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Drawing on his nearly two decades of clinical work with and research on boys, a psychiatrist examines the toll taken by the masculine imperative on boys and offers a plan for raising happier, more grounded males

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William S. Pollack, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist,    is the codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, an assistant <br>clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and a founding member and Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity of the American Psychological Association. He is coauthor of In a Time of Fallen Heroes: The Re-Creation of Masculinity and coeditor of A New Psychology for Men. He and his family live in Massachusetts.

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re in crisis. On the surface, many boys may appear tough, confident, and cheerful, but underneath, many of them are sad, <br>lonely, and confused. As the bestselling Reviving Ophelia took us into the worlds of girls, this groundbreaking book reveals the worlds of <br>boys to show how society's mixed messages to boys put more of them at risk today than ever before. Boys' voices and experiences rise up <br>from these pages as Dr. William Pollack of the Harvard Medical School draws on almost two decades of work with boys as well as on a recent <br>study called "Listening to Boys' Voices" to present new findings about the true nature of boys and new insights into how to raise them to <br>become happier, more confident, more successful men.<br> "I get a little down," says Adam,"but I hide it very well. I'd say I wear a mask of some sort. Even when kids call me names or try to taunt me,<br> I'd never show them how m

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