see something tangible quickly, some product that would make sense in the business world, something mat satisfies their constant hunger for achievement. Yet the counseling process seldom brings quick results; as one therapist has observed, “I find myself often devoting the better part of the first year of therapy simply to the development of a workable emotional awareness” (Hopcke 1990, 12). THREE GENDER-SPECIFIC TASKS Because of this masculine resistance, three tasks prove necessary for men in counseling
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