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Unlocking the iron cage
The mythopoetic men's movement grew quietly for ten years before Robert Bly's bestseller Iron John brought the movement to national attention. What is the truth about these men and their movement? Based on Michael Schwalbe's three years of experience as a participant and observer at over one hundred meetings, as well as on interviews with active members, Unlocking the Iron Cage provides a revealing look at who these men are, what they do, why mythopoetic activity appeals to them, what needs it fills, where it succeeds, and where it fails. Schwalbe illuminates the theory behind the mythopoetic movement - which derives largely from Jungian psychology and the archetypal psychology of James Hillman- but for the most part he focuses on the rank-and-file participants. He finds mostly middle-class men trying to cope with the legacy of fathers who gave little emotional sustenance and with...
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