Thursday, November 7, 2019


"APA issues first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys" 

"something is amiss for men as well. Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represent 77 percent of homicide victims. They’re the demographic group most at risk of being victimized by violent crime. They are 3.5 times more likely than women to die by suicide, and their life expectancy is 4.9 years shorter than women’s... 

just as this old psychology left out women and people of color and conformed to gender-role stereotypes, it also failed to take men’s gendered experiences into account. Once psychologists began studying the experiences of women through a gender lens, it became increasingly clear that the study of men needed the same gender-aware approach, says Levant.

The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful. Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors"

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/ce-corner.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1sXHtCpQbkxfIfkurzXAGdwubZbYFBiNmMMLYAuNDTMryzxcHj9OpyI2o

Related: myth of individualism, harm of striving, lone gunman

FB: "Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly." 

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