'It's a Wonderful life': a portrait of a man in crisis. (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Earl, Hank
• Is Part Of: Self and society. Volume 44:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 226
• Page End: 233
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: father -- men's groups -- emotional presence -- moods; Human potential movement -- Periodicals; Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals; Self-realization (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Human potential movement; Humanistic psychology; Periodicals; 150.198605
• DOI: 10.1080/03060497.2016.1228241
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-0497

Abstract

Abstract : Drawing on the classic film It's a Wonderful Life and my own experience of participation in and facilitation of men's groups, this article seeks to appraise the central character's emotional range and intensity, charting parallels between George Bailey and Parsifal, the Grail Knight, whose story forms the spine of Robert A. Johnson's book He: Understanding Masculine Psychology (1991).