MENSIGHT Index September 2000

BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH...

By John Colapinto. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

  By David L. Gollaher. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
"These two recent books make an interesting point and counterpoint. Both concern circumcision, both boast impressive research and highly accomplished authorship, and both approach their controversial topics with impressive detachment and objectivity. And ultimately, the two very different stories—one spanning millennia of history, the other tightly focused on one person’s remarkable life--both have important lessons to teach us." J. Steven Svoboda
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REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS... column by J. Steven Svoboda
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Standing Against Tanks
Remember the man who stood in front of the tanks in Tiennemin Square? Well, for the past couple of weeks I've heard tanks rumbling in my mind and I have finally had to stand in front of them.
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THOUGHTS... monthly column by Larry Pesavento 
Honor Thy Son
There is little cultural room in a patriarchy for a man who does not want to be like his father and take part in this structure. That man is vilified in some way as to impugn his masculinity. For those men who have worthy fathers, and who are called to work similar to their fathers, the system works very well. For other men, the dark side of the patriarchy becomes very real. Their choices, in not following the patriarchal pattern, bring the kind of response that eats away at soul and spirit. 
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TRANSITIONS... monthly column by Ken Byers, Ph.D.
The Prisonor
As he approached the table I stood up and introduced myself. He had waited over a year for an assigned match (friend.) He was black, big and not very pretty. This was, in fact, the ugliest man I had ever seen. Enough scars on his head to write a horror movie around. He was nervous, about as nervous as I was. At twenty-six he had no front teeth and he walked with a knife- induced swagger that was almost a limp. He had lived many more than twenty-six years.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by relationship experts James Sniechowski, Ph.D. and Judith Sherven, Ph.D.
We all come into our romantic relationships with old emotional baggage. A lot of it so psychologically primitive it seems it should have no place in how we think and what we do as adults, and yet old fears, old insecurities, old desperations can rear their very powerful voices and stir up unpleasant and sometimes self-destructive feelings and behaviors.
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FATHERS HONOR ROLL... Pay tribute to your father (grandfather, great grandfather, etc.) on our perpetual Fathers Honor Roll page
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