Male Psychology for The Public

We should avoid the temptation to apply a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to mental health either to boys and girls or across different cultures.

Inside, there was a huge set of cubicles, all fully closable to give lots of privacy. We walked along the cubicles to a free one, but…

The Panorama programme on domestic violence failed to adequately highlight two important issues: male victims and female perpetrators.

Although mental illness has increased since covid-related restrictions began, the suicide rate has reduced. This is welcome news, but why has it happened?

your photograph, name and address, might appear in the local and national press and on TV, insinuating what an evil monster you are

…an attack upon masculinity is an attack upon one’s sense of self, of identity. …What, then, is the right psychological defence against such an attack?

all I could see in his piercing blue eyes was a complex cluster of the various variables of what could only be described as disappointment.

I have concerns as to how these inconsistencies and sweeping generalisations about men and boys go unchallenged.

The male has been designed to “look”, not only at the female, but to “look out” for prey, for danger, and for ways to protect his family unit.

If his child is allowed to live, this man must be available, for the rest of his life, to love and provide for his child… If, on the other hand, it is decided that his child is to be destroyed, he should be able to go about his life as if nothing has happened

…an attack upon masculinity is an attack upon one’s sense of self, of identity. …What, then, is the right psychological defence against such an attack?

For years male rape has been shown as comedy, in films to TV shows, so much that it’s now a cliché. It even appears in children’s cartoon shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants

Socialising is a basic human need. The opposite – social isolation – is one of the worst forms of torture. Some people look down on the local pub as a place for undesirable riff raff, but that narrow viewpoint misses entirely the community value of the pub

Male psychology is a recent development in academia. Unlike gender studies, feminism, and men’s studies, male psychology takes the view that we can gain more by recognising and harnessing the positive aspects of masculinity than we can by taking a relentlessly negative approach to men.

The underlying assumptions made in the advert are that men are inherently bad – men are violent, sexual predators who have had their way for long enough. Only through the power of encouragement and social grooming can we protect society from the menace that is toxic masculinity.