Download or read book The Pregnant Man written by Deirdre Barrett and published by Crown. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student bound for a prestigious writing program is suddenly and inexplicably incapable of reading a single word. A staid society matron, looking to overcome her anxiety about flying, reveals a daredevil past. A young woman trying to come to terms with her sister's suicide is hampered by a poltergeist's mischievous interventions. A man who sets out to end an addiction to nicotine instead develops a false pregnancy. Can hypnotherapy heal a troubled mind? Why is it so compelling and controversial? In The Pregnant Man: And Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch, Dr. Deirdre Barrett describes how she has used the fascinating discipline known as hypnotherapy to treat these patients and many others. Tracing the voyage of seven patients through her practice, she demonstrates how hypnosis can accelerate and magnify the benefits of psychotherapy--and occasionally its dangers. Several of Dr. Barrett's patients evince disquieting symptoms--hallucinations, multiple personalities, and more--that hypnotic explorations reveal as variations on the universal themes of love, bereavement, envy, and shame. Other patients bring to her couch more mundane complaints--a desire to quit smoking, fear of flying--and in the course of their therapy uncover surprising dramas behind them. The Pregnant Man follows Dr. Barrett's personal evolution as a hypnotherapist, even as it illuminates the art and science of a branch of psychotherapy all too often misunderstood by the general public. She explains how hypnotherapy can offer a deeper window into the workings of the mind and offers expert guidance on deciding whether hypnotherapy is right for you. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature written by David D. Leitao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated as a representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, with its reception in philosophy in the early fourth century, did it also become a way to figure and negotiate the boundary between the sexes. The book considers a number of important moments in the evolution of the image: the masculinist embryological theory of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and other fifth century pre-Socratics; literary representations of the birth of Dionysus; the origin and functions of pregnancy as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy and works of some Sophists; and finally the redeployment of some of these myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's Symposium and Theaetetus.

Download or read book Pregnant Man written by Gordon Churchwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Churchwell his a problem he's never faced before—his wife, Julie, is pregnant. "What is happening to me? It's 6:30 A.M. My Wife is peeing on what looks like a scale model of the spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's an early pregnancy test called something like First Alert, or Early Response, some name that sounds like a smoke detector or a piece of EMS equipment." From this unavoidable physiological fact follows the greatest psychological crisis of his life, a story that eventually illuminates the journey of all men and women as they make the passage to becoming parents. What really goes through a "pregnant" man's mind? Combining his personal story with interviews with doctors, midwives, evolutionary scientists, and other fathers-to-be, Gordon Churchwell delivers the gritty, intimate details, as well as important new information, in an irreverent style that mixes poignancy, wit, and laugh-out-loud humor. He covers all the issues without flinching. On relationships: "There are moments when you are not just individuals trying to solve a personal problem, but representatives of your gender, acting out some social drama. Over Julie's shoulder I see a chorus of angry women. . . ." On sex: "While the party line is that Julie remains 'my beautiful partner to whom I am devoted,' to Mr. Weenie, she is beginning to look like Danny DeVito in Batman Returns. . . ." On why men find change difficult: "Why do I feel like a bystander in the most important 280 days of my life? Where are the stories that make a man feel like he's in it, and not out of it? The answer is simple. When it comes to the stories of fatherhood, our culture has discarded them." When he starts having morning sickness, Churchwell turns science detective and makes some startling discoveries: He finds out that male pregnancy symptoms are extremely common and uncovers evidence of a physiological paternal response-men have hormonal changes, too, which help prepare them emotionally for fatherhood. Does nature make fathers out of men? Working with a leading evolutionary psychologist, Churchwell argues for a revolutionary new perspective on a man's role in reproduction. Parental investment on both sides is not automatic. Pregnancy behavior is part of a continual process of negotiation about parental commitment. A man's response to pregnancy, including sympathetic symptoms, may signal his plans about investing in the child. His behavior can directly affect the mother's own response, including the quality of her maternal care. By showing that men have a physiological transformation of their own that integrates them into the biology of the family, Churchwell restores men to the story of reproduction. Expecting is an important contribution to the new literature of fatherhood that will amuse and inspire men and women as they transform themselves into parents. This personal story ends where it began, with him and his wife, Julie, struggling-this time as a team-through a harrowing thirty-five-hour birth ordeal, and welcoming their daughter, Olivia, into the world.

Download or read book The Pregnant Man written by Robert S. Phillips and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pregnant Man written by Roberto Zapperi and published by Harwood Academic Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a most exciting and unusual study of cultural history. The idea of the pregnant man, redolent of bawdy jokes and sexual fantasy, has inspired European literature and folklore since ancient times. Traces of the theme, both comical and disturbing, are found not only in the wealth of tales from Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Finland and other European Countries, but also in the Hebrew and Islamic traditions.

Download or read book What s Your Pregnant Man Thinking written by Robert Garrett Rodriguez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnancy won't be the same after reading What's Your Pregnant Man Thinking?. It presents the similarities and differences between expectant Moms and Dads. It explains that knowing these differences can produce a lasting relationship..that will endure for 50 years. This book describes the expectations, changing, challenging and sometimes baffling behaviors, of first time expectant fathers, a foreign and often misunderstood territory filled with myth and misunderstanding. What do men think about during the nine months of pregnancy? What are their concerns and worries? Are they worried about "real" things related to the birth of the baby? Why do some men stray from their relationship and have affairs during this time? Why do some men lose themselves in work, to old friends, hobbies, habits, and almost anything to avoid pregnancy which is when their partner needs them most. How can you detect and avoid your spouse or partner's destructive behavior? Are men more prone to violence with their partners during pregnancy? What changes in behavior are normal for fathers during pregnancy? How frequently do pregnancies result in separation or divorce? Are there early warning signs that a couple's relationship may be in trouble? How can you test and know the strength of your personal relationship? How can you make the pregnant relationship the best you've every enjoyed in your life? What's Your Pregnant Man Thinking? provides readers with a roadmap to understanding the windfalls and pitfalls of their new adventure of having a family. It will help every expectant couple understand their needs during pregnancy and give them a commanding lead toward achieving their dreams as parents. As every pregnancy begins with hope, Dr. Rodriguez fulfills this hope by opening new insights, encouraging tolerance, and providing an understanding of the signs and steps to follow for a blissful tomorrow. Studying the behavior of expectant fathers and couples for over 25 years, the author presents the yearnings, dreams, exploits, confessions, and challenges of expectant fathers during pregnancy. As he clearly writes, they feel deep emotions about the pregnancy. Couples feel deep emotions toward one another. They feel passion for their lives and futures. Each father and couple expressed the wish that they had known more about themselves, their expectations, and how to meet their partner's needs. What's Your Pregnant Man Thinking? grants their request.

Download or read book Confessions of a Pregnant Man written by Aldo Quagliotti and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who told you that men cannot get pregnant? Since when, exactly, pregnancy was merely addressed to children? After his fiery debut with Japanese Tosa (London Poetry Books), Aldo Quagliotti's return is once again in the name of experimental, adult Poetry. Confessions Of A Pregnant Man is an Ode to human imagination and a personal love letter from the author. Through a new collection of selected work, the author travels through undisciplined subjects with a critical eye, sometimes skipping cordiality and jumping to passionate statements but always delivering undoubtedly originals points of view. Ironical and irreverent, at times mystical and lyrical, this new chapter will plant the seed for a new generation of riotous, queer, alternative approach to the Spoken Word scene.

Download or read book How Men Have Babies written by Alan Thicke and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are books written especially from the perspective on how to parent, and how to participate in the birth -- but none on how to be pregnant. Until now. What you hold in your hand is a combination sage advice, expert opinion, and side-splitting truths on the up and downside of pregnancy for men. Alan Thicke, one of America's favorite funny men and father of three, with a little help from father-friends -- including Ray Romano, Wayne Gretzky, and Dave Barry -- has written the ultimate how-to guide for dads-to-be. Alan provides the real information and comic relief necessary to assure that your sense of humor doesn't fall victim to your pregnancy, as he expertly guides you through each step of the nine months. From breasts to birthing class, How Men Have Babies is about pregnancy from a man's perspective, intended to get him involved early and fully. Book jacket.

Download or read book Labor of Love written by Thomas Beatie and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman transitioned to a man with her ovaries and birth canal intact. As a result, he was able to be pregnant as a man.

Download or read book What s Your Pregnant Man Thinking written by Robert Garrett Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prequel To Confessions of a Sister Out of Time is a soap opera style entanglement of miscegenation. It picks up where Uncle Tom's Cabin left off and continues four steps beyond. The book tells the story of two mulatto (Quadroon) women of African descent who are reared as white women in a luxurious environment, with slaves of their own. These women become scheduled for the auction block. Later in the story a mulatto baby is switched with a white baby, who was mistakenly cast into slavery. Three interracial marriages take place in the middle of the 1800's story. A slave master defends and participates in a system that unknowing to him, enslaved his own heir.

Download or read book The Pregnant Guy written by Simon Morse and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pregnant Guy is a humorous look at pregnancy from a male perspective. It aims to provide a road-map to childbirth for the half of the population that has trouble asking for directions. Every expectant dad departs on a nine-month mystery tour to somewhere he has never been, probably never planned to go, and from where he cannot ever return: Parenthood. And men are never ready. Most of us are still too happy behaving like a child to consider actually having a baby. But as long as it involves sex, we're willing to give anything a try. Sure, it's the woman that gets pregnant, but it's the guy who has to live with a person whose hormones are permanently set one notch below rage and who has more mood swings than the Glenn Miller band. Now at least there's some help. A book about pregnancy and childbirth written for the guys, by a guy.

Download or read book Pregnant Men written by Ruth Colker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important contribution to the fields of feminist jurisprudence and feminist theory."Â -- Mary Anne Bobinski, University of Houston Law Center Pregnant Men shows how to implement anti-essentialist and equality perspectives in teaching, writing, and the practice of law. Because there are no "pregnant men," equality theory is difficult to formulate in a reproductive health context. Instead, Colker examines cases involving men who are similarly situated to pregnant women -- and shows that pregnant women are, in fact, treated far worse than "almost-pregnant" men. The individual stories she tells are themselves fascinating, and they demonstrate Colker's model of a more practical feminist theory.

Download or read book A Pregnant Man written by Guy C. Rausch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if men could experience pregnancy? Let me take you on a journey on my pregnancy train.

Download or read book A Pregnant Man Second Edition written by Guy Rausch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was able to experience thing during my wife pregnancies that most men have never or will ever experience. I got to experience some of the symptoms that women go through during pregnancy. In my opinion, it was a wonderful experience and I am so grateful that I have an extremely strong connection to my wife to share in her symptoms of her pregnancies.

Download or read book The Pregnancy Book for Men written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's pregnant. Now what? The Pregnancy Book for Men is a week-by-week guide to what's going on with your pregnant partner. Packed full of helpful tips and man-friendly info, this is the pregnancy guide that explains it all--from food cravings to baby kicks. Paperback, 144 pages

Download or read book The Pregnant Man written by Jenny Nicole Diamond and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This project addresses narratives by and about female-to-male transsexual Thomas Beatie, who made headlines in 2008 as the first legally-recognized pregnant man. Given the pivotal sociopolitical moment in this country, Beatie's pregnancy is particularly important as new laws that seek to define and narrow marriage and family status are appearing with alarming frequency. Specifically, Thomas Beatie and his pregnancy apparently broaden the existing space of kinship by pioneering a new pathway to family formation for queer people, thus making him a radical figure; however, it appears that the opposite may also be true. Thus, I take up this contradiction between the radical and the non-radical in order to show the way in which Beatie's own narrative about his identity and pregnancy actually resists broadening the meaning of family and adheres to tradition and heteronormativity. As Judith Butler reminds us, a situation's possibility is both formed and limited by the language used to describe it (13), and thus I contend that the radical nature of his act is compromised by Beatie's particular use of language. This thesis, then, ultimately seeks to analyze the way in which a seemingly radical intervention in the patriarchal construction of the nuclear family negates its own potential.

Download or read book From Here to Paternity written by Andrew Cullen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, funny, and insightful, this recollection of one man's experiences during his wife's pregnancy reveals the day-to-day reality and emotional turmoil of his journey into fatherhood. The male perspective on pregnancy, which is often overlooked, is revealed as the author reflects on the effects of the pregnancy on his relationship, his changing and often conflicting emotions, his declining sex life, and his insecurities about becoming a father. By sharing his joy, sense of wonder, fear, and anxiety, the author paints an illuminating portrait of what to expect when having a baby.