Today's Psychology Can't Help American Men

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Today's Psychology Can't Help American Men

Psychology, in general, is failing men.

John Mac Ghlionn
Mar 4, 2023

The men of America are struggling. As Daniel de Visé, a writer for The Hill, recently noted, more than 60 percent of the country’s young men are single, “nearly twice the rate of unattached young women.” He warned that we are now witnessing a complete “breakdown in the social, romantic, and sexual life of the American male.”

Only an idiot would disagree with this point. In the U.S., males are responsible for 80% of suicides, according to the CDC. Every 13.7 minutes, somewhere in America, a man takes his own life. Millions of men are desperate, loveless, aimless souls. Which raises the question: What can be done? Maybe more desperate men should seek psychological assistance? On second thoughts, maybe they shouldn't.

That’s because, like the country’s men, psychology is also struggling. In its current state, it is ill-equipped to help the men of America—or anyone for that matter. Over the last few years, it has become fashionable for more and more people in the psychology community to reject evolutionary psychology, a direct descendent of psychology and biology. As Satoshi Kanazawa, an expert in evolutionary psychology at London School of Economics, told me, “evolutionary psychology is based on evolutionary biology, dealing with genes and cells, which are smaller than humans and other animals.”

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Doubters should check out some of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) more recent statements, like this one claiming that there are no major differences between men and women—in other words, they are claiming that men and women are basically the same, and clinical practice need not reflect any inherent differences between them. The APA, for the uninitiated, is the primary programmatic accreditor for professional education and training in psychology. When it comes to training psychologists and treating Americans, the APA calls all the shots. 

The problem: Men and women are not the same. Sex differences in brain anatomy most definitely exist. The male brain is 10 percent larger than the female brain. Anatomical differences are largely explained by effects of sex hormones on brain development. Males and females experience various emotions—like happiness and sadness, for example—very differently. The APA, which now considers traditionally masculine qualities such as stoicism and competitiveness to be “psychologically harmful,” is failing men.

Psychology, in general, is failing men.

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Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/todays-psychology-cant-help-american-men/