Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : July 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 212
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97830
- ISBN 13 : 9781032444697
- ISBN 10 : 103244469X
Also by Ronald F. Levant
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What if your new client, a man in his early 40s, cannot answer basic questions in your initial assessment interview? You were aware that many men do not like to talk about their feelings, but this client seems kind of frozen. You think he might be alexithymic, but you do not know how to assess for that, or even more importantly, how to treat it. Assessing and Treating Emotionally Inexpressive Men has answers. Chapters explain why some men are emotionally inexpressive because of their childhood socialization, and the book provides both scales for assessing alexithymia in men and treatment manuals for helping these men became more emotionally self-aware in individual and group therapy. The book also offers case studies that explains how to integrate the authors’ approach with any model of psychotherapy. Clinicians will come away from this book with a clear sense for how to treat alexithymia in the early sessions of psychotherapy and thereby improve treatment uptake and outcomes.
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Providing psychotherapy for men who ‘feel nothing’ or deny emotions can prove challenging at best, and often intensely frustrating for many therapists. Long known for his expertise on the special needs of men in psychotherapy, Dr. Ron Levant is joined by Shana Pryor in producing this excellent collection of chapters to guide psychotherapists in assessing and treating emotionally unexpressive men. Packed with clinically validated suggestions for both individual and group work, this book provides both a comprehensive overview and many ideas for starting points with clients who avoid, deny, or fail to recognize many of their own feelings.
Gerry Koocher, PhD, ABPP, former president of the American Psychological Association
Augmenting their own considerable expertise, the editors have assembled a remarkable group of scholars and clinicians to produce the definitive volume on this very important and much neglected topic—a must read for any psychotherapist who works with men.
Christopher Kilmartin, PhD, independent consultant, professor emeritus of psychology, University of Mary Washington
Levant and Pryor have given mental health practitioners a true gift. The outstanding contributors in this book have developed a roadmap for treating men who are trying to ditch traditional masculinity and develop loving and fulfilling relationships. The evidence-based research and treatment put forward here belongs on your shelf immediately.
Lenore Walker, EdD, ABPP, professor emerita, College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Theory and Research
1. The Normative Male Alexithymia Hypothesis
2. Research on Normative Male Alexithymia and Related Phenomena
3. Research on the Severity of Normative Male Alexithymia
Part 2 - Assessment
4. Variance Composition, Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 in Non-clinical Samples
5. The Normative Male Alexithymia Scale: Measurement of a Gender-Linked Syndrome
6. The Development and Evaluation of a Brief Form of the Normative Male Alexithymia Scale (NMAS-BF) Part 2 Conclusion
Part 3 - Treatment
7. Alexithymia Reduction Treatment (ART): A Manual for a Brief Psycho-educational Intervention for Treating Normative Male Alexithymia. Individual Therapy Format
8. Alexithymia Reduction Treatment (ART): A Manual for a Brief Psycho-educational Intervention for Treating Normative Male Alexithymia. Group Therapy Format.
9. The Efficiacy of Alexithymia Reduction Treatment: A Pilot Study Part 4: Case Studies
10. The Man Who Felt Nothing About His Impending Fatherhood
11. The 'Both/And' Approach to Treating a Postmodern Couple
About the Editor(s)
Ronald F. Levant, EdD, ABPP, is professor emeritus of psychology at The University of Akron.
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Shana Pryor, PhD, is a full-time clinician serving active-duty service members.
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