Based on nearly two decades of clinical work with boys and on a study just completed, REAL BOYS: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Random House) by Dr. William Pollack, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, illuminates the private worlds of boystheir emotional needs from infancy through the teenage years; how they communicate with parents, friends and peers; how they learn and ways to improve academic performance; understanding patterns of behavior; the difficulties boys experience in their friendships and romantic relationships as adolescents; the unrelenting pressure boys feel from parents, teachers and peers to.