Male Psychology: The Magazine

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, Workplace Mark Lindsay Opinion, Workplace Mark Lindsay

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.

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Opinion, Mental Health, Workplace John Barry Opinion, Mental Health, Workplace John Barry

Job satisfaction is key to men’s mental health

Although many companies have Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs), there is a question over whether the help available to men is adequate. Recent research has highlighted that men and women may have different preferences for aspects of therapy, for example, in general men are less inclined than women to want to discuss their feelings as a method of dealing with stress.

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