Male Psychology: The Magazine
Brutalised children can become brutal adults: An interview with clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Naomi Murphy.
The brutality of the person's offence is generally related to the brutality of what they've experienced during childhood.
Fatherlessness, violence and suicidal tendencies in Norway. A review of the novel ‘Mysteries’ by Knut Hamsun
…if you could take the pages of that book and condense that precise combination of words and their meaning into a pill, people would never want to take drugs again
Tonic masculinity: part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1 can be found here.
“This brings me to a final value of tonic masculinity as I see it emerging. And that is the work to be done of restoring harmony between the sexes, to return relations in the nuclear family and local community to a degree of genuinely democratic responsibility and caring for the other.”
The double whammy of being a survivor of domestic abuse who is blind and male
I felt in my dealings with some police officers, as though I were treated firstly as a man (assumed to be a perpetrator), but they’d overlooked risks associated with my impairment. Example: How can you dodge a missile you don’t see coming?
A tonic for the toxic narrative on masculinity
I want to argue in favor of what I term tonic masculinity and what a dose of it might provide society to dispel some of the mystifications and often ironic ambiguities about sex and gender.