The analysis of masculine issues is increasingly seen as a key cultural and therapeutic concern. This book focuses on masculinity and male identity in the context of psychoanalysis. Individual chapters address the historical positioning of the male psyche, contemporary debates on what it is to be male and advocate a new model of masculinity.

DR ANASTASIOS GAITANIDIS is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Roehampton University, a Visiting Lecturer in Psychodynamic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK.

Introduction
Locating the Male Within the Psychoanalytic Tradition; T.Adams
Wrestling with Male(ness): Deconstructing the Virtual Macho World in Psychoanalysis and Culture; M.Stanton
The Myth of Latency and the Construction of Boyhood; T.Adams
Narcissism, Mourning and the 'Masculine' Drive; A.Gaitanidis
The Phantom of the Primal Father; A.Gaitanidis
On Men's Friendships with Other Men; L.O'Carroll
Deconstructing the Homosexual-Heterosexual Divide; L.O'Carroll
The Fear of Male Humiliation; T.Adams
Achieving Our Country: Ethnic Difference and White Men's Racism; L.O'Carroll
Conclusion.