Male Psychology: The Magazine

Val Thomas 10/27/22 Val Thomas 10/27/22

Woke Therapy Weakens the Client

The client will be encouraged to interrogate their relationships based on power dynamics. Female clients, for example, will be urged to view all interactions with men as a site of patriarchal oppression

John Barry 10/27/22 John Barry 10/27/22

'The APA guidelines are disparaging of men and boys’. An interview with Professor Chris Ferguson

I’ve become curious why people, including very smart people with Ph.Ds, tend to leap at moralistic conclusions, adhere to them and consider them “science” when they are no such thing.

John Barry 10/9/22 John Barry 10/9/22

World mental health day: why the World Health Organisation (WHO) should be more positive about masculinity

John Barry 6/30/22 John Barry 6/30/22

Beyond ‘male privilege’. An interview with Rick Bradford (aka Will Collins), author of The Empathy Gap.

…There is a reason why men who speak up on these issues tend to be retired or unemployed.

John Barry 6/30/22 John Barry 6/30/22

Masculinity can be good for men’s mental health, but thinking it’s bad for you is related to bad mental health

…a review of 58 research studies conducted between 1978 and 2021 found that masculinity […] is, in fact, linked to lower depression

John Barry 5/5/22 John Barry 5/5/22

The APA has changed its view of masculinity

The APA has been criticised for the view of masculinity in their 2018 guidelines, so it is very welcome news that the mission statement of the relevant part of the APA is no longer so negative.

John Barry 4/13/22 John Barry 4/13/22

It’s time for the PTMF to stop categorising men as negative stereotypes

“Although psychiatry is criticised for reducing people to diagnostic categories, the PTMF reduces men even further to a narrow and unforgiving stereotype of masculinity”