
Male Psychology: The Magazine
‘The Unspoken Truth About Male Sexual Abuse’: Insights from a police officer turned psychologist.
…maybe some of the men in prison were victims who had used drugs and alcohol to cope too. I knew this was a slippery slope…a slope that could quickly and easily lead to a prison cell.
Let’s Cultivate Resilience Before It Becomes a Lost Skill
Resilient people do not let adversity define them, because they have been conditioned to perceive bad times as a temporary situation.
The Valentine gift of Masculinity
More than at any time in history, we need now to grant each other this gift of mutual care. That is because the love of women no longer saves men from the battles they face, and the love of men no longer saves women from wolves that prey on their peace of mind.
To be or not to be in the Covid-19 Brave New Normal? A question of male courage.
There is an assault from many factions in our society dominated by a postmodern outlook, which seeks to deconstruct the identity of men, masculinity, and men’s role in the pursuit of truth.
Do men take too many risks in relation to the environment and covid-19?
Imagine that we knew that a stray planet was going to collide with us in a year’s time, and people could look up at the sky every day and see the planet getting bigger and bigger… How many climate sceptics would suddenly believe in saving the Earth?
A zoology of male psychology: why understanding men doesn’t have to be a turtle disaster
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.
Could There Be an Antidote for “Toxicity”?
What if honor could be codified and made practical in application? A psychological antidote to today's war of words? Its mature boundaries, an alternative approach to disagreement in derogatory terms such as "toxicity", "gaslighting", and others like them?
Why it’s not ok to say ‘Kill All Men’
In 2017 Deputy Editor of HuffPost Personal Emily McCombs posted the tweet “New Year’s resolutions: 1. Cultivate female friendships 2. Band together to kill all men”.
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 development of my father’s career in psychology, and how the field changed during the 20th century from being male-dominated to female-dominated
…post-war maintenance of an enlarged Civil Service […] led to a strong presence of women in the governance of State endeavours such as the NHS. It also seems that once […] clinical psychologists were allowed to practice ‘talking therapies,’ for which women arguably have a natural aptitude, the floodgates for women in psychology were fully opened.
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.
Dads should not be sneered at for taking their little daughters to the women’s toilets
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…
Masculinity in Brazil: the man, the he-goat and the scapegoat
Brazil is plural... There are those who still see masculinity as a Tarzan archetype, which must be rescued. …Many people (especially women) criticise traditional masculinity, but reinforce it.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group report on Issues Affecting Men and Boys is a welcome step in the right direction, but must not be led astray, as initiatives have been in the past
The most positive news so far this year for the wellbeing of men and boys is the publication of the report, A Boy Today, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys.
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.
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.
What was missing from the BBC Panorama exploration of domestic violence
The Panorama programme on domestic violence failed to adequately highlight two important issues: male victims and female perpetrators.