When a man doesn’t feel pushed into talking, when he can just sit there, watch the film - while cradling his pint, watching others open up - At the end he might just say..... “Yeah I feel that way too.”

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

The book is a brilliant achievement, both intellectually and morally. It has stood the test of time – unfortunately - because things haven’t changed that much since 1992

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.

If everyone agrees that something is no good, it makes sense to get rid of it, right? “In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, in the year 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal decree that Satan was half-cat and sometimes took the form of a cat. The violent result of this decree was a diminished population of feral cats in Europe.

La violencia de pareja es un constructo multidimensional en el que se suelen distinguir la violencia física, la psicológica, la sexual y las conductas coercitivas y de control. En este artículo voy a abordar un tipo de violencia de pareja que no ha sido tan estudiada aunque -por su frecuencia y consecuencias- lo merece.

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.

Legal and administrative violence is the manipulation of legal and administrative resources as an attempt to control or inflict emotional and financial harm on one’s partner

What is to be gained by demonising men, when they are our brothers, sons, grandchildren? How can society function properly with 50% of it branded as toxic?

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.

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