Male Psychology: The Magazine
A paradigm shift in the field of men’s mental health: review of the new book ‘Men’s Issues and Men’s Mental Health’, by Prof Robert Whitley
As explained in this excellent book, the study of men’s mental health is dominated by what is called the ‘deficit view’ of masculinity.
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
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”
You can’t reduce domestic abuse by telling people that life is a power struggle between men and women. Interview with Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan
There is social power, there is structural power, and there is physical power. What women have in our society is the power of the state behind them, and men do not. Men only have that physical power, and most men don’t want to use it
The state should help prevent - not enable – abuse during family breakdown
Although a ‘survivor’ of domestic abuse… I was never going to give my career up to make me financially eligible for legal aid.
What is the cause of the turmoil in our culture, and how can we survive it? Excerpt from Will Collins’ new book The Destructivists
Equality attained is as much use to the moral usurper as a dead battery. So the moral usurpers will maintain the narrative of inequality at all costs, whilst pretending to be fighting to overcome it.
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
It’s time for a strategy for male victims of domestic violence
The campaign begins with a focus on the Northern Ireland Executive’s recent call for views on the development of a specific strategy to tackle violence against women and girls. We are calling on the Executive to complement this work with a male victims strategy.
An invisible hero for invisible victims: interview with domestic violence pioneer, Erin Pizzey
90% of men in prisons have come from generational family violence… So when they're violent - which is what they've learned - we then perpetuate the violence by putting them in prison.
‘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.
False allegations of rape: the true extent remains unknown.
…lack of a consistent definition of what constitutes a false rape allegation, as well as variations in recording practices by police and others in the CJS, make accurate assessment of the true extent of such allegations very difficult.