Male Psychology: The Magazine

Amit Kumar 10/3/24 Amit Kumar 10/3/24

Two Comedians and the Male Mind

John Barry 8/1/24 John Barry 8/1/24

What if you are a therapist who doesn’t like working with male clients?

John Barry 3/13/24 John Barry 3/13/24

"Each ill-conceived relationship is a little tear in the social fabric”. An interview with psychologist and relationships expert, Shawn T. Smith

John Barry 3/6/24 John Barry 3/6/24

A success story for men’s mental health: Therapist Andy Noon discusses James’ Place, a charity saving the lives of men in suicidal crisis

Miles Matise 2/13/24 Miles Matise 2/13/24

Beyond Happiness to Meaning: three case studies of male midlife crisis

Phil Mitchell 12/15/23 Phil Mitchell 12/15/23

Acronyms and Male Mental Health

… as someone who used to rigidly think that masculinity was bad, a wealth of literature challenged my thinking and helped me to develop a healthier and more informed view…

Zac Fine 12/15/23 Zac Fine 12/15/23

Are men treated as 'less equal' by the therapy professions?

Therapists can work effectively with men experiencing distress without asking them to change. Telling them they are ‘doing masculinity wrong’ is judgemental and victim blaming.

John Barry 10/27/23 John Barry 10/27/23

Masculinity isn’t toxic, it’s the tonic society needs. An interview with therapist, Professor Miles Groth.

Masculinity may be just the tonic (remedy) needed by society at a time when it has recently suffered so many fractures.

Andrew Plemper 1/31/23 Andrew Plemper 1/31/23

Are men less willing to engage in traditional talking therapy because therapy has been feminised?

Gamma bias […] plays down positive aspects of masculinity, whilst rejecting the notion of men as victims.

Paul Dobransky 12/1/22 Paul Dobransky 12/1/22

The "Better Angels" of Masculinity

Masculinity is a set of masculine instincts—whose expression and use generate and are energized by the feeling of passion for life.

John Barry 11/17/22 John Barry 11/17/22

Introducing the British Psychological Society’s guidelines on therapy for men

Dan Perrins 11/3/22 Dan Perrins 11/3/22

What drives a man to walk the highways and streets spreading the word about male suicide?

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.

Michael Klein 5/31/22 Michael Klein 5/31/22

Five steps to better mental health for men

Open up more, notice more how you feel, keep focused on your goals, put your goals first because you know they are good for you

John Barry 5/3/22 John Barry 5/3/22

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.

The Centre for Male Psychology 5/3/22 The Centre for Male Psychology 5/3/22

Why are twice as many women as men prescribed psychotropic drugs? A historical perspective.

Mental distress in men was more common than generally acknowledged, and was treated in different ways e.g. alternative drugs, or self-medication with over-the-counter remedies.

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”

Zac Fine 3/31/22 Zac Fine 3/31/22

A therapist who has survived the family court process shows other men how they can get through it too

I was ignorant of these horrors until I had my own skirmish in the family courts. Being a therapist, I emerged wondering if I could support other separated fathers

Duncan M. Shields & Marvin Westwood 11/11/21 Duncan M. Shields & Marvin Westwood 11/11/21

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