Calling in the Patriarch: Applying the Male Sensitive Lens to Relationship Counselling
Calling in the Patriarch: Applying the Male Sensitive Lens to Relationship Counselling
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2024-09-16
Authors
Proulx, Eric
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Male-sensitive psychotherapy offers therapists a means to engage in therapy with traditionally masculine male clients through interventions that challenge patriarchal male gender socialization, but also allow men to be more comfortable and less resistant in therapy. Though research finds that a main reason for termination of relationship counselling in heterosexual couples is the male client’s discomfort with therapy or dissatisfaction with the therapeutic alliance, little research has been conducted attempting to turn the Male-Sensitive lens towards couples' counselling. This capstone project surveys the literature surrounding male-sensitive psychotherapy, explores frequently used relationship counselling modalities and provides analysis detailing how practitioners using male-sensitive couples therapy, emotionally focused couples therapy, socio-emotional relationship therapy and Gottman’s sound relationship house can integrate male-Sensitive principles and interventions into couples work.
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couples’ counselling , masculinity , male-sensitive psychotherapy , normative male alexithymia , patriarchy
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States , openAccess