The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health by John A. Barry & Roger Kingerlee & Martin Seager & Luke Sullivan

Author:John A. Barry & Roger Kingerlee & Martin Seager & Luke Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030043841
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Working with Adolescent Males

Access to the present is the goal of ET, but precisely that is compromised by many of the features of a typical adolescent male ’s life. Getting at his existence—his present—will mean getting past what he is presumed to be by virtue of being a young male in order to get to the ultimate concerns that are just occurring to him. I am aware that I have begun to use the masculine pronouns and that I have asserted that existence is genderless. The attempt in ET to suspend and transcend the givens of everyday life (what Edmund Husserl called “the natural attitude”) nevertheless begins with them, in this case the predicament in which so many young males find themselves enmired. More important, it is not specifically “male issues” that concern us but instead bringing home the point that the goal of ET is to unmask and encounter the ultimate concerns masquerading as the symptoms that bring a young male to meet with us.

When working with an adolescent male and with the goal of ET in mind , certain considerations of practice have priority. I now turn to these. Whenever possible, I will refer to the singularities of male —especially young male —experience, keeping in mind that ET with anyone, male or female, young or old, has essentially the same goal. Having spoken of generalities, it should be obvious that the essence of ET is found in its recognition that each therapeutic encounter is unique since each of us is different: each other sitting across from me is one of a kind and changes from meeting to meeting, and the same holds for me as therapeut.

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