Childhood Trauma and the Non-Alpha Male

Gender Role Conflict, Toxic Shame, and Complex Trauma: Finding Hope, Clarity, Healing, and Change

By: Douglas W. Carpenter

Narrated by: ChasMandala

The social perception of masculinity is very black and white: one is either an alpha male or a beta male, and there can be no variation. However, this is not the reality of masculinity in today's society. Non-alpha males exist somewhere in the middle of the masculinity spectrum and are far more common than most people realize. These non-alpha males are prone to developmental and behavioral issues caused by gender role conflict, toxic shame, and complex trauma. These, as well as the role of parenting, attachment and abuse issues, gender constructs and socialization, and the resulting addiction, sexual issues, and self-loathing are explored in Childhood Trauma and the Non-Alpha Male.

Dr. Carpenter's book offers healthy resolutions through self-acceptance and psychological health. With stories of experiences from actual non-alpha male clients bringing the theoretical into reality, Childhood Trauma and the Non-Alpha Male helps offer healing through hope, clarity, healing, and change.

©2018 Douglas W. Carpenter (P)2021 Douglas W. Carpenter

Alternative perspective, helpful.

In society right now there seems to be 2 perspectives on men and sexuality. Both seem very extreme. Either you were born this way and it’s wrong to question that or it is wrong to feel certain things and you have a lack of self control.

I feel neither is particularly helpful.

This book presents that going through certain things can lead you to seek out comfort and coping mechanisms to nurse those wounds.

Reading this book with an open mind I was able to ask myself some questions and come to my own conclusions. I highly recommend this book to others who are open minded and looking to hear all sides of this topic.

Highly recommend

Great book, informative, vert well written and delivered. highly recommend to every man or mother of a son

Helpful in ways I wasn’t expecting

This book was helpful for me in so many ways. It actually went much deeper and into areas I would not have considered which has really opened my eyes to what’s happening with a lot of what I am working through.

My non-alpha son

This book did an amazing job helping my understand my son. It gave things to talk to him about and it gave me insight into what he is going through as he becomes a man. If you are raising a boy and you want to help him become a man you should read this book.

Incredibly written

I found this book informative and gives examples of young boys in uncompromising situations, and the tragedy of the trauma it causes in their adult lives.
It is a book that parents would benefit reading, in the raising of young boys and teenagers.

Thorough look into the male mind

Carpenter weaves together stories and research to show what takes place in the male mind through all kinds of traumas. I came away with more knowledge about the ways men struggle and succeed. Thorough and helpful!

This book is not what it seems.

The book pretends to be a work looking at a psychological principles around boys. However, it starts right off into the narrative that gendering children is wrong. If this is your narrative, this is a good book for you. However, if this is not. I recommend staying away from this book.