1st Edition
Psychotherapy and Unstable Notions of Masculinity
Introduction—Psychotherapy and healthy masculinity: Exploring our values, and what stops us thinking about them, when working psychotherapeutically with increasingly unstable notions of masculinity
Del Loewenthal
1. When interiority is annulled: The healing of psychic pain, trauma and deprivation in a case of compulsion to child pornography
Robert Grossmark
2. Everybody wants to be a manager: On masculinity, microfascism and the manosphere
Manu Bazzano
3. Oh Father, My Brother: Reflections on Psychoanalysis, Class and Masculinity
Anastasios Gaitanidis
4. ‘The Spirit is a bone’: Masculinity, authority, and ideology
Tony McSherry
5. What am I supposed to be? An essay on Masculinity
Sally Parsloe
6. Interrogating and recuperating masculinities in therapeutic practice
Brendan Gough
7. Masculinity in the consulting room: A child psychotherapist’s experiences
Andrew Briggs
Biography
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 .
