Re: Fathers and Affect

• Fathers & Affect by Brett Schur, Havertown, PA - bschur@msn.com, 3/27/96
  
  

It sounds like all males (father) are being chunked into neat categories, as research enjoys doing. I have concluded that it is a poor supposition to conclude that men have difficulty showing emotion or are apathetic. Many therapist know how to do "feelings" psychotherapy and are completely lost when confronted with the task of working with someone who does not fit the mold of the well trained client who speaks the exact same language as the therapist. If you pick and poke at anyone about their feeling or emotions about a distressor, you will get the same answer from both a male and a female. It many not be in the same form but their stories or resposes should be pretty much the same. To spit the sexes into clear categories limits the description of persons. Not to say that the information is not reliable, I am just saying that it is not useful for helping people with the difficulties in their lives. The thing to be suspicious of is the idea that the two sexes or people in general should have an optimum state of being to achieve. Psychotherapists should respect other's processes of interpreting information.

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