This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies, and Realities

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Horrocks, Roger

Campling, Jo

Psychology & Counseling

Waterlow Pub Ltd

On Film

Tremewan, Philip

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Foundations of Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Individual Therapy

Red Globe Press

This book provides a comprehensive and clear survey of the major theoretical schools of psychotherapy - including Freudian, Jungian, humanistic and cognitive. There is also some consideration of the impact of new discoveries in neuroscience upon psychotherapy, and of the status of psychotherapy as a profession. The book also provides a concrete, detailed and hands-on introduction to working with clients, with many vivid and helpful vignettes from actual sessions. Many practical issues are covered, including: - how the setting for therapy can become a safe and secure container - ways in which the therapist/client relationship can be used an invaluable tool in therapy - how client negativity can be handled - methods for dealing with the difficult or disturbed client The book also covers more controversial issues such as the authentic relationship, the role of the body in therapy, and the therapist's own self-disclosure. This book is an essential introduction to psychotherapy for all trainee psychotherapists.

Len Lye: A Biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas—film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography, and poetry. Born in New Zealand in 1901, Len Lye gained an international reputation in the arts and had friendships with many famous people, including Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, Gertrude Stein, John Grierson, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Laura Riding, Stan Brakhage, and the artists of the New York School. A colorful bohemian, Lye lived in London from 1926 to 1944 (where he made highly original hand-painted films for John Grierson’s GPO Film Unit), then moved to New York for the last 36 years of his life.

Len Lye

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Auckland University Press

First published in 2009, this lively art book will be re-released in 2015 alongside a new edition of the biography – as the art and life of Len Lye continue to fascinate readers in New Zealand and around the world. "Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory", ex-pat New Zealand artist Len Lye boldly claimed in an essay in 1964. In Art that Moves: The Work of Len Lye, Roger Horrocks – author of a best-selling biography of Lye – explores what Lye meant by this, and how his own work in sculpture and film bore it out. "My book is about an important artist and a big idea, Len Lye’s idea that movement could become the basis for new forms of art. . . He believed that only a few of the possibilities of movement had so far been tapped. This book aims to explore what the world of art – and the world in general – may have looked like through the eyes of an artist whose passionate interest was ‘the mystery of motion." – Roger Horrocks The well-illustrated book also includes a DVD containing a short documentary by Shirley and Roger Horrocks alongside brilliant footage from Lye’s films and of his sculptures in motion. In this book Len Lye’s art moves again – alert and alive

Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

History & Criticism

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