Beyond the Crisis of Masculinity: A Transtheoretical Model for Male-friendly Therapy

This book explores the psychopathology of men's everyday lives - the maladaptive strategies that men use to maintain a traditional male role that has increasingly come under assault. The key to engaging men in therapy, Brooks argues, is devising a male-friendly therapy, involving flexibility, consciousness-raising in mens groups and other out-of-office settings, and the therapists emphasis on an authentic empathetic bond with the troubled male client to discover meaning in the clients relational pressures and problems at work, with loved ones, and, most of all, with himself.