{"product_id":"man-enough-fathers-sons-and-the-search-for-masculinity-paperback","title":"Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Pittman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does a boy learn to be a man?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man learns masculinity primarily from his father. But generations of boys who grow up without caring fathers or male mentors to emulate are left to guess what \"men\" are really like. They rely on cultural icons--larger-than-life images--as models of masculinity. As a result, they grow up mirroring overblown myths of manhood. Obsessed with being \"man enough,\" they become philanderers, controllers, and competitors--constantly overcompensating for their loss of a true role model, yet sorely unprepared for family life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eMan Enough\u003c\/b\u003e, psychiatrist and family therapist \u003cb\u003eFrank Pittman\u003c\/b\u003e explores what it is like to grow up male today. With great poignancy, humor, and candor, he weaves together case studies from his practice, examples from literature and films, plus personal vignettes from his own experiences as a father to examine these hyper-masculine men and to illustrate how they developed and how they can change. Dr. Pittman asserts that men can move past proving their masculinity and start practicing it by striving with the other guys rather than against them, achieving equality and intimacy with their mates--and by fathering. A man raises himself as he raises children and learns to understand and forgive his parents as he becomes one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important book for men \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e women, \u003cb\u003eMan Enough\u003c\/b\u003e offers a new approach to issues of commitment, caring and control and creates a positive model for the fathers of tomorrow's men.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Pittman, M.D.\u003c\/b\u003e, is a psychiatrist and family therapist in Atlanta, Georgia. His revolutionary research on family therapy as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, conducted with Langsley and Kaplan in Denver in the mid-1960s, won awards from both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Family Therapy Association. In the late 1970s, Pittman championed community mental health as he directed the public psychiatric at Atlanta's Grady Hospital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the last twenty years, Pittman has been in private practice, teaching in the department of psychiatry at Emory University and in the department of psychology at Georgia State University, and doing workshops around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1983, he has written a regular movie review for the Family Therapy Networker. Since 1991, he has written a monthly advice column for men in \u003cb\u003eNew Woman\u003c\/b\u003e magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe works and lives in Atlanta with Betsy, his wife of 33 years, and a steadily changing menage of their grown children, nieces and nephews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 7.98 x 5.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758629257504,"sku":"9780399518836","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a32d9d03c8eef2d3af468e2744362f1a_d07832f1-b95e-4a4a-b243-3102fc603524.webp?v=1780130974","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/man-enough-fathers-sons-and-the-search-for-masculinity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}