62nd Annual Conference

Men Fearing Men: Developing Male Intimacy
 

Chair:     

Rick Tivers, LCSW, CGP, Private Practice, Northbrook, IL

This interactive course will assist clinicians to understand and help men work through fears associated with intimacy. Fears such as abandonment, sexuality, engulfment, shame and exposure will be addressed and demonstrated during the working through process.

experiential-demonstration-didactic-sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Evaluate how the fear of intimacy in males is acted out.

2. Develop a strategy to work through these intimacy fears.

3. Describe the personality structure and how narcissistic injury inhibits closeness with males

References:

1.  Kipnis, A. R. (1991). Knights Without Armor. New York: GP Putnam’s Sons.

2.  Moore, R. and Gillette, D. (1993). The Warrior Within. New York: Hearst Corp.

3.  Stoltenberg, J. (1994). The End. New York: Penguin Group.