Book Awards & Honors

• MIPA Book Award Winner
• Independent Book Awards Finalist
• NAPRA Nautilus Award Finalist

From Booklist-
“In our society, concern for a child's emotional health should start earlier with boys than with girls, Pollack says, for a boy's problems arise from being cut off from mother's comfort when he is sent to school and from both parents' support when he reaches adolescence and supposedly must learn to "sink or swim." Both those disconnections occur because society unthinkingly observes what Pollack calls the "Boy Code."… A cogent and moving demonstration that Hamlet needs help, too.”

From Publishers Weekly-
“In a lucidly written primer for parents, Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Pollack dismantles what he terms "the Boy Code", society's image of boys as tough, cool, rambunctious and obsessed with sports, cars and sex. These stereotypes, he argues, thwart creativity and originality in boys. Linking clinical insights to practical suggestions, Pollack advises caregivers how to help boys repair their fragile self-esteem, develop empathy and explore their sensitive sides… On balance, though, his manual is enlightening and stimulating.”

From Marguerite Kelly, The Washington Post-
“A must-read.”

From Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School-
“A worthwhile book for many families…equally helpful for teachers and others who spend their days working with children.”

From John Bradshaw, author of Healing the Shame That Binds You and Homecoming-
“I recommend this book without question.”