Caring for men and boys; This episode draws on Jordan Peterson’s book, '12 Rules for Life' and William Collins book 'The Empathy Gap' and blog, ‘The Illustrated Empathy Gap'; it explores some the ways in which boys and young men are disadvantag...

Caring for men and boys. After an encounter with a colleague who told me, "the patriarchy influences everything, it’s everywhere” I decided, in this episode, to focus on Jordan Peterson’s critique of the idea of patriarchy; his critique is in h...

Caring for men and boys. This episode continues to explore and comment on Jan Jekeliek’s interview with Dr Warren Farrell. This time I’m focussing on the dynamics of, what Farrell presents as, the ideal family set up for children in general, an...

Caring for men and boys. This episode focusses again on the work of Dr Warren Farrell; it’s based on the first part of a Jan Jekielek ‘Thought Leaders’ podcast interview where Farrell exposes the holes in the  new Gender Policy Council est...

Caring for men and boys. This episode focusses on the work of Dr Warren Farrell and is based on 2 interviews, one with Alysse ElHage for the Institute for Family Studies and one with Mark Walsh, of The Embodiment Channel on YouTube. His journey...

Dads, Boys and Rough PlayCaring for Men and Boys. In this episode I look at just one of the many ways in which a father’s presence and involvement impacts positively upon his child’s development.And of course, as usual, there’s a ...

Caring for Men and Boys. This episode plays with the idea of gender reversal. It is based on an article that invites us to imagine what it would be like if we made femininity toxic, how it would be if we were to designate certain female chara...

Caring for Men and Boys. This episode is based on part of a paper authored by Belinda Brown who is an independent quantitative and qualitative researcher, a contributor to The Conservative Woman and a Patroness of the Scottish Family Party; she...

Caring for Men and boys. In this episode I return to the subject of parental alienation and in particular to the four criteria for identifying the phenomenon that are included in Amy Baker’s 2018 paper; the title of her paper is ‘Reliability an...

Caring for Men and Boys. This episode is based on a YouTube video, the link to which is in the notes; it features interviews with parental alienation specialists who attended the Parental Alienation Study Group Conference in Philadelphia, USA i...

Caring for Men and Boys. In this episode I’m going to discuss a really painful issue that my male clients can present with; the issue is proceedings involving the CAFCASS agency, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service. I’ll ...

Caring for men and boys. In this final episode, focussing on psychotherapy with male shame, I look at the qualities that need to be present in the therapeutic environment if men are to feel OK enough about themselves and the therapist, to do th...

Caring for men and boys. In this episode, the penultimate episode in this series, I ·      touch on Allan Schore’s research into the development of infant boys·      introduce a model which ident...

Caring about men and boys; In part 2 of Psychotherapy with Male Shame, I continue my discussion about the most common difficulty that my male clients present with which is also very common amongst my female clients, the rage, endorphin release ...

Caring about men and boys. In this episode I’m going to tell you about the kind of issues that my male psychotherapy clients present with; then I’ll share one of my models with you that describes the most common issue that my clients with ...

Caring about men and boys. This is a longer than usual Christmas episode; it includes the final part of the International Men’s Day parliamentary debate and a very special Christmas ‘good guys of the week’ feature that expresses the quinte...

Caring about men and boys. In this penultimate episode I share the contributions of three more MP’s in a section of the debate which had a more emotional flavour than the rest with two of the MP’s speaking in a clearly moved and heartfelt ...

Caring about men and boys. More contributions from MPs who took part in this debate. Attention is given to men’s domestic abuse, their mental health and that no white working class men were admitted into SOAS, a prestigious university, in ...

Caring about men and boys. A continuation of the International Men’s Day parliamentary debate.This episode discusses the very small minority of MPs who attended this debate and the contributions of Philip Davies MP and Elliot Colburn MP.

Caring about men and boys. Ben Bradley MP gave an excellent speech in the House of Commons, UK on International Men’s Day on the 19th November 2020. He compassionately discusses the negative impact on working class boys in particular and workin...

Caring about men and boys. This episode explores polarised ideas about men and women are embedded in mainstream Western culture. It is based on a chapter in the Palgrave Macmillan, Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health in which the auth...

Caring about men and boys. In this episode we look at the gender gap in life expectancy; how biology and socio-economic factors conspire, presently at least, to negatively influence male health and premature death.  A nowhere near exhausti...

Caring about men and boys. This episode continues the discussion about the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme and makes the argument that because radical feminist ideology underpins the programme, it can be viewed as cult like. I look at the e...

Caring about men and boys. In this episode I discuss the origin of this programme in a single brutal murder that took place in Duluth, Minnesota in 1980 and how the dynamics of this grim crime were extrapolated and applied to every incident of ...

Caring about men and boys. This episode briefly introduces and begins to critique the long serving domestic abuse intervention, the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme, based on the American Duluth model; both UK and US programmes are underpinn...