Pollack 1998

[Jaunita Rousu]

DrPollack joined the psychology faculty in 2020. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University and completed her clinical internship at SUNY Upstate Medical University in 2006. She received her M.A. in Psychology from Duquesne in 2000 and her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1998.

Dr. Pollack is a qualitative researcher and her work is informed by a feminist-psychodynamic perspective. Her past research explored how socio-cultural factors influence maternal attachment and emotional expression, and how this shapes women's relationships to food and their bodies. Her current research is focused on the effectiveness of experiential-psychodynamic psychotherapies.

Dr. Pollack has worked as a clinical psychologist across various settings, with a specialty in clinical health psychology. She is certified as a teacher and supervisor of experiential-dynamic therapy. Dr. Pollack is very involved in the Central New York Psychological Association (CNYPA), where she served as President in 2015 and 2016 and received the "Psychologist of the Year" award in 2013. She hold positions on the board of CNYPA, the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA), and the Samaritan Counseling Center of Utica.

Dr. Pollack is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry Department at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a Clinical Supervisor and Instructor in the Psychology Department at Syracuse University. In both settings she provides supervision and instruction to doctoral students in clinical psychology. She also maintains a small private practice where she provides psychotherapy, assessment, and clinical supervision.

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood is a 1998 nonfiction book about boyhood and boy culture by clinical psychologist Dr William S. Pollack,[1] in which the author asserts that toxic conceptions of masculinity in boy culture leads to boys doing poorly in education and health and having higher involvement in violent crimes and suicide than girls.

Real Boys became a bestseller.[3] A Toronto District School Board review of the book says: "Pollack's groundbreaking book has become the academic bible that the new boys' movement was launched from."[1]

The philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers, who attributes the book's popularity to the public response to the Columbine High School massacre, writes that Real Boys is, "The most popular book calling for the rescue of boys from the constraints of a harmful masculinity".[4]

Opened by Dr. Pollack in 1998, Pollack Clinic of Chiropractic has been providing specific, effective chiropractic care to the Deerfield and surrounding communities for over 20 years. As a primary practice, we are proud to help others discover a natural alternative to taking medication and suppressing symptoms.

With 41 years of knowledge and experience under his belt, Dr. Pollack is committed to identifying the cause of your discomfort and developing an individualized course of treatment that is right for you.

Pollack Clinic of Chiropractic believes no case is too severe or too difficult to be undertaken. From migraines to fibromyalgia in adults and ear infections to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children, Dr. Pollack will do everything he can to get to the bottom of the problem at hand and help you live your best life.

While most practices shy away from complex cases, such as treating those with Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Pollack does not. Multiple Sclerosis cannot be cured, but even IT can be managed to promote comfort and happiness, naturally.

Are you exhausted by constant pain? Unsure that a solution to your agony exists? Dr. Pollack and the Pollack Clinic of Chiropractic team are here for you. Our practice sees patients of all ages and conditions, regardless of severity of the case. Assisting young infants and elderly adults alike, we have something to offer everybody. A diplomate, fellow, and instructor in the Gonstead technique, Dr. Pollack is the only doctor within close proximity that specializes in such definite, customized care.

Pollack Clinic of Chiropractic has a profound history of helping and even healing those that are seemingly unqualified for treatment. We have successfully prevented a young child with a degenerated eardrum due persistent ear infection from enduring surgery, as well as allowed a man with Multiple Sclerosis to travel without his wheelchair for the last years of his life. If there is a will, there is a way.

In his ground breaking 1998 bestseller Real Boys, clinical psychologist Dr. William Pollack opened our eyes to the national crisis of boys, revealed their unique emotional, psychological and physical needs and gave parents practical advice about how to raise boys today. Now, in REAL BOYS’ VOICES (Random House), Pollack lets us hear boys speak for themselves, in their own voices, about everything from violence, school, parents, depression and girls to suicide, sports, sex and spirituality.

Based on nearly two decades of clinical work, fresh interviews and research as well as Pollack's own clinical study "Listening to Boys' Voices," Pollack gives us boys’ voices verbatim as they talk about the topics parents and teachers—and friends and girlfriends— want and need to hear about. In these voices, we learn about boys’ fear of violence, the "bully culture," their deep desire to fit in and yet be themselves, their hidden spiritual side, their sense of being misunderstood and disconnected and their secret thoughts about girls and sex. Pollack also addresses the violence that affects boys in crisis, lets us hear the genuine heart wrenching voices of boys from Columbine, and uncovers the terror which has spread from Littleton, Colorado to schools and communities throughout our nation, what Pollack has newly identified as the dramatic "Columbine Syndrome."

"When boys speak about 'being themselves,' many describe a double life in which they are one person in public – a cool guy who plays fast and lives by the rules of the Boy Code – and somebody completely different in his private life, often a much more creative, gentle, caring sort of guy."

For REAL BOYS’ VOICES, Pollack traveled across the country, speaking to boys of all socioeconomic backgrounds and races, to find out about the pressures, pleasures, expectations and attitudes of growing up male in America. He found boys hungry for connection, longing to be themselves, and yearning for change. They are filled with fear, confusion, and anxiety about coming of age but unlike girls, feel intense pressure to keep their emotions bottled up inside, to be in control and to be strong. The pressure they feel to be popular, to succeed at sports, and to excel in school is leading to loneliness and shame as well as more serious concerns like depression and suicide. Today, suicide by boys is at a crisis level. In the past thirty years, the suicide rate for adolescent boys ages 15-19 has tripled. A recent C.D.C. study found that about 75% of all suicides committed by children ages 10-14 are committed by boys and that number rises to 83% among teens aged 15-19. In REAL BOYS’ VOICES, Pollack reveals the 5 key warning signs of depression and shares his 15 point program to change the way we relate to boys, improving not only their lives, but the safety and security of all of us who live with them and care about them.

"Of all the things boys across America are talking about, teasing, bullying and the need to ‘fit in’ figure at the top of the list."

Dangerous bullying and our tolerance of it, argues Pollack, is a national disgrace. Every day over 160,000 children miss school because of fears – or acts – of bullying. In a recent CDC study, 81% of students admitted to bullying their classmates, while 75% of adolescents nationally admitted that they had been bullied during their teen years. The boys Pollack spoke with described school as a place where you cannot let your feelings show for fear of ending up humiliated, seriously injured or dead. In REAL BOYS’ VOICES, Pollack offers practical advice on how to deal with bullies, what to do if your child is a bully and what to tell your child if he is being bullied. Pollack also reveals how homophobia and boys’ insecurity about their sexuality is at the root of much of the painful teasing and bullying that boys so often endure.

"The boys I met with early in 2000 in Littleton, Colorado, have a lot to say to America. They have survived a trauma that they, and our nation, will not forget."

The tragic shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado left the nation confused and afraid about the threat of extreme violence and its connection to boys. In the wake of the tragedy, Pollack traveled to Littleton, Colorado to meet with boys from Columbine High School to discuss the fear, the forgiveness, the healing and the lessons learned. In REAL BOYS’ VOICES, boys speak movingly about their lingering fear and anxiety, their deep sadness and the spirituality that helps them cope with the tragedy. Pollack also analyzes the national legacy of fear – the Columbine Syndrome – that remains. He reveals how the violence has made America afraid of boys, how teachers, parents and students are stereotyping types of boys who may be violent and how boys themselves are afraid -- afraid of being victims of violence, afraid that if they are different, they will be falsely accused of being predisposed to murderous rage and afraid to discuss the real feelings they have inside themselves for fear that they will be considered violent. In REAL BOYS’ VOICES, Pollack reveals the three key steps to help deal with and face violence:

"These brave boys have a lot to teach us about the kind of society we have become," writes Pollack. "They are clear, as we must be, that what they have experienced is not limited to Littleton, Colorado, but is endemic to America."

REAL BOYS’ VOICES illuminates the secret inner emotional lives of boys today and gets to the heart of what mothers, fathers, teachers and girls want to know, as well as what boys want to know about each other, but are afraid to ask.

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