"This book offers a ground-breaking look at psychological and social forces that have kept men silent about what matters to them most. As The New York Times psychology columnist Daniel Goleman states in the Foreword, 'The roots...go back to the most primal relationships men have, as children, with their own fathers, and to the messages--both subtle and overt--they receive as they grow that tell them, in effect, that to seal the heart is to be a man. But although men have been silenced by the early events of their lives, they need not be bound by them. That, too, is a message of this book.' "--Cover page [4].