The Pain Behind the Mask: Overcoming Masculine Depression
"Focuses on our most destructive social and mental health problem-masculine depression-which goes unrecognized and leads to the violence, abuse, and self-neglect that wreck so many lives. Their book could not be clearer or more compassionate. It is right on target and sorely needed."  --Frank S. Pittman, III, MD, Author,Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for MasculinityandGrow Up! How Taking Responsibility Can Make You a Happy Adult"Lynch and Kilmartin address a central problem in the contemporary crisis of gender, namely the male tendency to experience depression as a disconnection from self and others. The Pain Behind The Mask delineates the damaging effects of masculine depression . . . and points the way for men to heal in the context of relationships."   --Ronald F. Levant, EdD, Co-author,Masculinity Reconstructed, and Dean, Department of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.