Reviews

"The time has come when men can stop complaining that psychoanalysis sells them short. This erudite, compassionate and beautifully edited collection is going to be a benchmark for the engagement of psychoanalysis with the masculinities. Many clinicians are all at sea with the men in their practices. We need authors like these who can, with elegance and punch, traverse gender, cultural and queer studies, balancing the intrapsychic and social dimensions of the work, knowing when that distinction breaks down. Poetically, here's a confirmation of masculinity as a metaphor of being and experiencing for all. Politically, here's a contribution from the clinic to healing a world whose problems reflect those of the men who run it."

- Andrew Samuels, Ph.D., Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex

"Heterosexual Masculinities is a long overdue book of essays examining the multiple configurations and subjective experiences of male heterosexuality. Long the stepchild in discussions of gender and sexuality, male heterosexuality is, as the various authors argue, as varied, complex and multiple as female hetero- and homosexuality. Far from being merely the opposite of female sexuality, male heterosexuality has been undertheorized as the "one," rather fixed sexuality. The editors of this book, Bruce Reis and Robert Grossmark, have accomplished a remarkable job of filling this theoretical lacuna by assembling a broad range of texts from contemporary relational psychoanalysts, who demonstrate in their own respective ways the degree of variety and fluidity that exists in the large spectrum of male heterosexuality."

- Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California