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Authenticity
Helping Boys Become Themselves
From: Cracking the Boy Code
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• Electronica undermines the development of authenticity. Boys don’t begin figuring out who they are until they escape the barrage of representations and distractions that occupy their lives.
• Authenticity means that which is essential to a person’s life story and personal coherence. These insights and experiences are the glue that hold boys together at critical forks in the road.
• Cultivating authenticity has practical value. It instills confidence, direction, and effort. It is a buffer against anxiety and depression.
Contributors
Adam Cox
Adam J. Cox Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist whose work includes thousands of hours interviewing children. His research includes a multi-year global research project, Locating Significance in the Lives of Boys, for the International Boys' Schools Coalition, during which he interviewed students and teachers in the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds. A sought-after therapist and frequent speaker on the psychology of boys, he is author of the acclaimed books On Purpose Before Twenty, Boys of Few Words and No Mind Left Behind. Cox lives in Rhode Island and shares his wisdom in his newsletter Family Matters at DrAdamCox.com.
