Silent Sons: A Book for and About Men

The only reason I didn`t rate this book 5 stars is because the Kindle version I downloaded from Amazon has a ton of misspelled words in the text. Fix it please, Mr. Amazon! Otherwise this is an extremely insightful book about men on the effects of growing up in a dysfunctional home. I had previously read a hard copy of the book, which had no typos by the way, and needed to own it. I grew up in a home where a dysfunctional woman married a dysfunctional man and they created an extremely dysfunctional marriage. My brother and I grew up in this dysfunctional home and both of us carried the dysfunction into our own marriages and families. This book helped me diagnose my own low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence which affected my life up until I was 55 years old. A practical and hard hitting book. I am glad that Dr. Ackerman wrote it.

Very good. If you have a husband or partner that avoids hard issues to talk about,or just doesn't really communicate with you about anything "emotional", then thisbook may help you to understand him better, and it may help him to "figure himselfout" more, and open up.

great

Excellent book for those adults who grew up with alcoholic fathers. Provides insight into behaviors. I've used this with my clients.

This is a book that gives a voice to men. Not only in one-to-one situations, but also enabling us as the community to shift the focus from feminism and actually giving the evidence that men also have feelings. They may be severely impacted by their personal histories. And that doesn't even mean that they would like or should be treated as victims. But they deserve to be aknowledged and respected. Marvelous read for all that love at least one man in this world.

I read this with a friend and we walked through the chapters together. It took us half a year but we both learned lot. It helped me understand my relationships and myself.

Good easy read, there was some solid advise on dealing with life I recommend it to anyone with with dysfunctional parents trying to raise kids themselves. Multiple spelling errors hindered some of the reading. Would of been five stars without the errors

A GREAT book. I'll be buying more for the famly.

amazing book! Read it a few years ago it would save many things in my life.

fantastic book for men in general, you will find that you can relate it many parts of the book