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Therapist Olga Silverstein discusses how mothers of male offspring can break a pattern wherein men, socially required to break away from their mothers, also dismiss the qualities associated with "mother" such as caring, nurturing, empathizing, worrying, and communicating. This results in u...

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Corporate Authors: Microtraining Associates, Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy
Other Authors: Lerner, Steve, Graumann, Peter, Silverstein, Olga
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Alexander Street Press, ©2009.
Series:Counseling and therapy in video.
Subjects:
Mothers and sons.
Child rearing.
Masculinity.
Boys > Psychology.
Men > Psychology.
Mères et fils.
Éducation des enfants.
Masculinité.
Garçons > Psychologie.
Hommes > Psychologie.
Boys > Psychology
Child rearing
Masculinity
Men > Psychology
Mothers and sons
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Vidéos.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Therapist Olga Silverstein discusses how mothers of male offspring can break a pattern wherein men, socially required to break away from their mothers, also dismiss the qualities associated with "mother" such as caring, nurturing, empathizing, worrying, and communicating. This results in unhappy, unfulfilled men and perpetuates a patriarchal system that shortchanges men and women alike. Mothers must have the courage to discard cultural conventions of how to raise sons and instead become "agents of their own values."
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 streaming video file (32 min.))
Production Credits:Photos, Paul Skolnick, Marcia Scanlon ; illustration by John Brite.