Introduction
I. The Obsession of Masculinity
One: Masculinity: The Secret Passion of Men
Two: Philanderers
Three: Contenders
Four: Controllers
II. Becoming a Man
Five: Growing Up Male
Six: Father Hunger
Seven: Mother Love
Eight: The Brotherhood of Boys
Nine: Myths of Heroes
III. Being a Man
Ten: A Man Among Men
Eleven: Mating with a Woman
Twelve: Life as Father
Frank Pittman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and family therapist in
Atlanta, Georgia. His revolutionary research on family therapy as
an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, conducted with
Langsley and Kaplan in Denver in the mid-1960s, won awards from
both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Family
Therapy Association. In the late 1970s, Pittman championed
community mental health as he directed the public psychiatric at
Atlanta's Grady Hospital
For the last twenty years, Pittman has been in private practice,
teaching in the department of psychiatry at Emory University and in
the department of psychology at Georgia State University, and doing
workshops around the world.
Since 1983, he has written a regular movie review for the Family
Therapy Networker. Since 1991, he has written a monthly advice
column for men in New Woman magazine.
He works and lives in Atlanta with Betsy, his wife of 33 years, and
a steadily changing menage of their grown children, nieces and
nephews.
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