The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of "Boycaps per book psychology" all around us--in men's abusive behaviors, passivity and inability to act creatively.

To help males become more nurturing and mature, Moore and Gillette identify four archetypes of masculine energies from myth and literature:

• the Lover, brimming with vitality and sensitivity;

• the Magician, guider of the processes of inner and outer transformation;

• the selfless and wise King identified with Adam or primordial man;

• and the Warrior, whose energies often go awry in destructive activity.

Dream analysis, meditation, Jungian "active imagination" and ritual processes are among the tools set forth in a clear, concise map to territories of masculine selfhood.