Male Psychology: The Magazine

Interview, Crime, Domestic abuse John Barry Interview, Crime, Domestic abuse John Barry

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

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Interview, Media, Biases John Barry Interview, Media, Biases John Barry

From Sex War to Family Union: an interview with Neil Lyndon

…the feminist movement has done inestimable damage to the mental health of boys and men. Making boys second class at school, teaching them that males are bad by nature and that women have suffered at the hands of men inevitably leads to boys feeling unhappy about themselves and adopting the unruly, delinquent behaviour which is expected of them.

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Commentary, Masculinity, Mental Health John Barry Commentary, Masculinity, Mental Health John Barry

Most people know masculinity is ok, and the Harry’s masculinity reports support this view

International Men’s Day 2017 saw the launch in Westminster of the first Harry’s masculinity report. The report found evidence justifying why the general public think men are basically ok, despite the fact that so many academics seem to use men as a blank screen onto which to project their negative feelings about masculinity.

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Opinion, Fatherhood Vincent McGovern Opinion, Fatherhood Vincent McGovern

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.

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Opinion, Education, Clinical Anonymous Opinion, Education, Clinical Anonymous

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.

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