AndroTherapy SF

Why do men need a kind of counseling that assumes from the get-go, that their maleness is not a problem? Recent study shows that over 70% of doctorates in psychology are taken by women. What does that tell you? ---

It's astonishing how many men buy the line, now dominant in our assumedly-feminist culture, that men are basically a problem , even the problem. Do they think that by trying to placate people who basically despise them, that they will somehow escape the general judgment? Men who feel like outsiders in their own culture are not imagining it. ---

Despite feminist musings that men are obsolete or merely decorative, reality and nature say otherwise. So let the girls be quiet now . ---

If you have the time and like to read, Mark Twain's extracts from The Private Diaries of Adam and Eve are terrific outlines of the differences between men and women. And very funny. --

Shocking idea, no? Here's a website from a men's therapist back on the East coast. Lots of info and links. ---

Always readable and very often contrary culture critic Camille Paglia makes a few things clear to feminists about the role of men in human life and civilization. It's A Man's World, And It Always Will Be It's a blunt fact of biology and nature that men need women to make babies and continue the species. Women (and children), however, need men just to survive. Valuing women and the feminine should never mean demeaning men and the masculine. ---

for therapists: Doing Psychotherapy With Men.   Its Australian author, John Ashfield, confronts the damage that men suffer under the feminist assumptions that drive contemporary therapy. Shockingly, he takes the counter-cultural stance that gender is inescapably driven by biology. What a concept. Feminists complained that traditional psychology saw them simply as defective males. The tables have now entirely turned and the fundamental attitude toward men in the psychological world is that they are not feminine enough. Ashfield makes a useful point, that in order to do ethical therapy with males, they must be given as much attention and permission to be themselves as men as is now de rigueur for groups such as women, gays and Blacks. "Cultural competence" and "gender sensitivity" are required of therapists in those privileged contexts. But there is no demand at all that they educate themselves in order to treat men and still Do No Harm. ---