Male Psychology: The Magazine
‘Do I Belong Here?’ How well are male victims of domestic abuse served by local authority websites?
Many local authorities will use ungendered language, but given the predominant “male violence” narrative, ungendered language may not be enough to convince a man he’s in the right place.
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”
We need to listen to young men, even when we don’t like what they are saying
Some people blame drill music – a form of rap - for the rising murder rate in London. Drill is known for aggressive lyrics about gang violence, but rather than seeing this as a valuable way for young men to express their feelings, some people want to ban it.
‘Dehumanizing the male’. Book review.
To survive… cultures have to use men and women effectively and … in fact, most cultures have used men and women in different ways… what our culture does is [grant] greater status to men and greater protection to women
A guide to counselling male military personnel and veterans
hyper-masculine gender norms are typically embedded within military institutions, and while adherence to these norms can contribute to combat and military success, they conversely make clinical work challenging
One man’s experience of how the family court system can impact the mental health of fathers
During that holiday whilst not with me, the oldest boy started self-harming and talked about killing himself. …What do you think was the action of social services at the case conference? Case closed, the children were taken off the At Risk Register. The father was no longer in the family home and now the children were deemed safe.
We need a sophisticated international approach to understanding the mental health needs of boys and girls
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.
80% of clinical psychologists are women. What is being done to address this gender imbalance?
This is the second of a two-part article. In Part 1 we saw that men make up only about 20% of clinical psychologists. For a field so focused on equality, this is a very large elephant in the room. Here, in the second part of this article, efforts to address this disparity - and responses to these efforts - are discussed.
What’s happened to the blue collar male, and why does it matter?
Blue collar males in the U.S. are experiencing higher incarceration rates, dying younger, using drugs more, and marrying less than ever before. Why?
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021: complex times require clear thinking, not ideology
Although mental illness has increased since covid-related restrictions began, the suicide rate has reduced. This is welcome news, but why has it happened?
How can you help men who are falsely accused of sexual abuse? Notes from the FASO helpline
your photograph, name and address, might appear in the local and national press and on TV, insinuating what an evil monster you are
Why are so few psychologists male? Insights from a psychology trainee
If the situation was reversed, I would never dismiss the contributions from female colleagues purely because they were female and their experiences were different to my own.
Should we be concerned about the messages that men and boys are exposed to?
I have concerns as to how these inconsistencies and sweeping generalisations about men and boys go unchallenged.
The yin of being looked at and the yang of looking.
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.
Men Bereaved by Abortion
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