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Mythopoetic Perspectives of Men's Healing Work
An Anthology for Therapists and Others
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Edward Read Barton
Book Code:
H646
ISBN:
0-89789-646-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-89789-646-7
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0897896467
304 pages, figures
Bergin & Garvey
Publication:
9/30/2000
List Price:
$131.95
(
UK Sterling Price: £75.00
)
Availability:
Out of stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Psychology
»
Clinical Psychology
Sociology
»
Men's Studies
Psychology
»
Psychology (General)
Reviews:
For therapists, this book is a good introduction to a rapidly growing body of theory in men's psychology. It is important on two fronts. Firstly, it births the beginning of more mainstream academic investigation in this area (previous texts have been based in grassroots experience and relatively little formal academic investigation has been conducted in this field), and secondly because the volume provides a broad range of opinion and debate....[
M]ythopoetic Perspectives of Men's Healing Work
offers the reader a number of important psychosocial entry points into this rapidly expanding men's movement. The text is a good base from which more specific enquiry may extend, and educates the reader in most of the fundamental issues at play in this this arena. Barton's book may be seen as a brave attempt to capture some of the seminal debates in a relatively under researched field that is growing in both depth and scope, and which is influencing some of our fundamental assuptions about men.
—Mantis Winter 2002
A useful recruiting tool for any psychologically-inclined professionals you may know who have limited exposure to the movement, and for any open-minded intellectuals.
—Everyman: A Men's Journal
There is even less of these types of materials published about men at midlife involved in activities structured in a mythopoetic perspective or about men actively involved in mythopoetic men's work. This volume fills that void.
—Mythology Book for Men
I found the book to be very readable and an extremely thorough study of men's work and its impact on society....Mythopoetic men's work is a valuable resource for men of all ages.
—The Loving Brotherhood Newsletter
At last, a serious, wide-ranging exploration of the mythopoetic men's movement and its application, especially in the ManKind Project. This book provides a a wide range of insights and information that advance the debate and offer new opportunities for understanding and integration.
—Journal of Men's Studies
Endorsement From Robert E. Lee, Ph.D., F.A. Clin.P.: Clinical Director
Marital and Family and Child Ecology
Michigan State University:
Barton's anthology goes well beyond
Iron John
and
Fire in the Belly
to take an unblinking, scholarly look at 'the men's movement,' the death of which has been erroneously reported.
Mythopoetic Perspective of Men's Healing Work
offers a philosophically sound and carefully delineated conceptualization of the mythopoetic approach to the study of men....This collection is important to anyone aspiring to any depth of knowledge, appreciation, and capability with regard to `the men's movement.'
Endorsement From Douglas Hindman, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Professor Emeritus
Eastern Kentucky University:
Barton provides the most thoughtful analysis to date of the mythopoetic men's movement. This wide-ranging well balanced book will be useful to students of gender studies as well as to therapists working with men.
Endorsement From William L. Kauth, M.S.
Co-founder of the New Warrior Training Adventure
and author of
A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men's Support Groups
:
This is an amazing historical piece of work....This book draws from an extensive variety of sources to present a contemporary men's work history with a heart. The author has been there and done his work to make this research come alive.
Endorsement From Jørgen Lorentzen
Associate Professor of Department of Comparative Literature
University of Oslo, Norway:
This is an important book for men and women doing men's work of therapy on men....It gives hope for a better dialogue between groups who are fighting for the same goal.
Endorsement From Philip Culbertson
The College of Saint John the Evangelist
author of
New Adam
(1992),
Counseling Men
(1994), and
Caring for God's People
(2000):
Barton, long known for his commitment to the mythopoetic branch of the Men's Movement, has produced a valuable anthology of essays by sociologists, psychologists, counselors, and narratologists, to undergird the validity of the healing which so many men find within mythopoetics.
Endorsement From Jed Diamond
Author of
Male Menopause
and
The Warrior's Journey Home: Healing Men, Healing the Planet
:
This is an extremely valuable book for all those who are men, care about men, and work with men.... I highly recommend the book to all those who care about men, boys, our families, and our communities.
Endorsement From John Lee
Author of
The Flying Boy
and
Facing The Fire
:
Ed Barton has collected powerful, pertinent and useful ideas, wisdom and strength in his anthology. A must read for men and women.
Endorsement From Mangesh Kulkarni
Convener
Forum for the Study of Indian Masculinities:
I think
Mythopoetic Perspective on Men's
Healing Work
is an excellent collection of essays on the theoretical and practical aspects of an important strand of the men's movement. It will be of use to scholars, therapists and others interested/involved in the movement. The relevance of such a book to the U.S. is obvious, but I think it will also benefit those concerned with Men's Studies/Movements elsewhere in the world. I strongly endorse and recommend this book for publication.
Endorsement From Ralph H. Johnson
University Professor of Philosophy
University of Windsor
Windsor Ontario, Canada
and Past Chairman
The Windsor-Detroit Board
The ManKind Project:
Ed Barton deserves much credit for putting together this anthology of articles focused on the mythopoetic approach to men's issues....This work should prove to be a tremendously useful resource for anyone teaching a college or university level course on men's issues or on gender.
Endorsement From Charles G. Heisinger, Jr.
Former Executive Director
The ManKind Project:
I recommend it for all members of the ManKind Project as well as anyone else working with men, their relationships, and their families of whatever configuration.
Endorsement From Warren Farrell
author of
Why Men Are The Way They Are
and
Father and Child Reunion
:
The most thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the mythopoetic perspectives of men's healing work.
Endorsement From John Rowan:
I was very impressed by the standard of work....This is a serious book worthy of attention from anyone who wants to know about the Bly version of the mythopoetics men's movement.
Description:
Midlife is the stage of generativity versus stagnation. As a man realizes that he has lived more than half of his life, he will look for new ways to be generative with his family, as a father, in his community, and to others in general. Otherwise, he runs the risk of stagnation.
There is little-published theory, research, or evaluation of men's programs for men at midlife. There is even less of these types of materials published about men at midlife involved in activities structured in a mythopoetic perspective or about men actively involved in mythopoetic men's work. This volume fills that void.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
What is Mythopoetic Men's Work and Theory Building?
Parallels Between Mythopoetic Men's Work/Men's Peer Mutual Support Groups and Selected Feminist Theories
by Edward Read Barton
Beyond the Drum: An Exploratory Study of Group Processes in a Mythopoetic Men's Group
by Steve R. Wilson and Eric Mankoski
Warriors and Fathers: ONCE WERE WARRIORS and the Mythopoetic Understanding of Men's Violence
by Christopher J. Bullock
The Mythopoetic Interpretation of Texts: Hermeneutical Considerations
by David B. Perrin
A Proposed Model for Comparing Writers in the Mythopoetic Branch of the Contemporary Men's Movement
by Thomas M. Brunner
Silencing the Men's Movement: Gender, Ideology, and Popular Discourse
by Joel Morton
Reconstructing Masculinity: Images and Life Stories of Men's Mutual Support Group Members
by Eric Mankowski
Therapeutic Applications
The Use
of Myth and Quasi-Myth in Therapy
by Ross Thomas Lucas
Working with Men from a Mythopoetic Perspective: An Integrity Therapy Framework
by Nedra R. Lander and Danielle Nahon
Object Relations Perspectives of Masculine Initiation
by Wesley Goodenough
Therapeutic Status of the Mythopoetic Approach: A Psychological Perspective
by Daniel J. Richard
Research on the ManKind Project, Formerly Known as the New Warrior Network, and the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA)
Collaborative Research with a Men's Organization: Psychological Impact, Group Functioning, and Organizational Growth
by Eric Mankowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Christopher K. Burke, Sharon A. Hoover, and Clinton W. Anderson
Heuristic and Ethnographic Study of the Mankind Project: Initiating Men into a "New Masculinity: or a Re-packaging of Dominant Controlling Patriarchy?
by Marty Pentz
Feminist Roundtable and Conclusion
A
Feminist Looks at the Men's Movement: Search for Common Ground
by Holly Sweet
Men and the Search for Common Ground
by John Rowan
Justice, Joy, and an End to the Gender Wars
by Amanda Goldrick-Jones
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
LC Card Number:
99-054739
LCC Class:
HQ1090
Dewey Class:
305
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