Title: Is there a cure for masculinity? /
Authors: Jukes, Adam.
Publisher: Free Association Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Masculinity; Men Psychology
Abstract: "The author asks what it means to be a man, and what part masculinity play in men's identity. What is it like to have to spend so much time and energy in managing that identity? Adam Jukes has spent most of his professional life working with troubled and disturbed men, and in 1984 he opened one of the world's first treatment centres to address men's abusive and violent behaviour towards women, from verbal and emotional abuse through to stalking and murder. In the following decades that work developed into a clinical examination of masculinity, and the author now shares his insights and conclusions with the reader. Jukes' conclusions about what constructs masculinity and how it develops may be unpalatable to some but it is also thought provoking and intriguing to anyone who has an interest in these issues - whether professional or personal, male or female, wife or lover, sister or brother, husband or father."--Publisher.
Contents: Introduction : clinical case studies -- Attachment, anxiety and the fear of women -- The fault : its origin and nature -- Attachment and masculinity -- Sulking, masculinity and attachment -- The domino theory : the root of masculine destructive and self-destructive behaviour -- The first child syndrome -- The use of an object -- Phallic narcissism revisited : competition, aggression and status -- Shame and perversion -- Normal hyper-masculinity -- The function of drama -- The mad hypothesis -- Conclusion : is there a cure for masculinity -- Postscript.