Classic: Michael J. Diamond, "Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic treatment is often inaccurately called a bi sexualization process. It would be much more accurate to call it bigenderization, because in psyche we're not talking about sexual object choice. We're talking about a sense of what we think of as related to gender. And i think we see that in treatment. Often, the palic malein treatment, in he successful treatment, has much more access to his, again, what culturewil be called the feminine within himself. Can really move from what often is a paranoid, skisoid position where he has to be penetrating the world or will be penetrated by it.
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