Book
"Real Boys' Voices"
by William Pollack, Ph.D. with Todd Shuster
William Polack lets us hear how American boys themselves describe their isolation, depression, longing, love and hope.
In the pages of this book, boys speak eloquently and truthfully about such topics as shame, bullying and teasing, the pressure to fit in, addictions, how they see the lives of the men they know, the importance of their parents, their own spirituality and creative experiences, friendships with other boys and with girls, being gay, and coping with divorce and other losses, including the death of a friend or parent.
Pollack also provides vital signposts . How can you get behind the mask of masculinity that many boys wear? How can you tell whether a "bad boy" is actually a "sad boy" - and how do you spot the danger signals of depression? How can you grow closer to the boy you love?
Full of insights from and about young and adolescent boys, this book is an important, illuminating, and invaluable book - for boys themselves and for all the people in their lives.
William Pollack, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, is the codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and a founding member and Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity of the American Psychological Association. He and his family live in Massachusetts.