Abstract
It is getting harder and harder to know what a man is supposed to be like, but Aaron Kipnis made a great contribution with his notion of the ‘initiated man’ who has dared to go in for personal therapy. I want to expand on this idea, and to give some examples of how it works in practice.
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Notes on contributor
John Rowan has been working in the field of Humanistic Psychology since 1970, and his book Ordinary Ecstasy: The Dialectics of Humanistic Psychology is now in its third edition. He is at present working on a third edition of his book The Reality Game, which contains much new material. His work and publications in the fields of gender, men’s issues and the transpersonal are well known in the therapy world. John is Honorary Life President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain.