Awakening from the Deep Sleep A Practical Guide for Men in Transition

Name: Awakening from the Deep Sleep A Practical Guide for Men in Transition
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ISBN: 9780062506948

ISBN-10: 0062506943

ISBN-13: 9780062506948

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Authors: Robert Pasick

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"After years of socialization mandating fierce independence, invulnerability, and strength, many men fall into what psychotherapist Robert Pasick calls a "deep sleep": an emotional and behavioral state often characterized by excessive dependence on work, wives, or addictive substances. By their late thirties or forties, these men feel pressured to prove themselves, wary of the career track they're on (whether or not they've been successful), socially isolated, emotionally distant and hypercritical, and uncertain about what they really want." "Drawing on years of experience counseling men. Pasick explores how they relate to work, anger, grief, women, sexuality, fatherhood, and addiction.…

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 253
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Acknowledgments
You Know You're in the Deep Sleep When ...	p. 1
Falling into the Deep Sleep	p. 3
Understanding the Causes of the Deep Sleep	p. 26
A Framework for Understanding Our Families	p. 47
Learning to Recognize and Trust Our Feelings	p. 67
Waking Up to Women	p. 114
Sex: Still Confused After All These Years	p. 143
Our Parents, Ourselves, Our Children: Toward Understanding and Healing	p. 176
Staying Awake: The Importance of Friendship	p. 222
100 Ways to Stay Awake	p. 245
Suggested Reading	p. 251
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