The feminization of mental health: As a future mental health provider I found this article amazing.

sigtrap · 2011-08-29T23:14:08+00:00

So where are all the groups and programs to encourage more men in the mental health field? Oh, that's right, another double standard. Look at the Computer Science field. There are tons of groups and programs to encourage more women to go into the CS field. Nursing is another field where there are more women than men, but why is there nothing to encourage more men to get involved in nursing? This shit pisses me off.

Psygnosis · 2011-08-29T23:55:53+00:00

“I remember when I started training, I looked around and realized that for the first time in my life, I was an endangered minority,” said Ryan McKelley, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. “Now I tell my male students, if you’re interested in clinical care, you can write your own ticket. You’ll be hired immediately.”*

As a male psychology doctoral student, I will simply say "+1" for this sentiment. Out of my class of 30, we have 3 men. When I go to a new practicum site, I hear, "Oh, the new student is a guy? Thank goodness! I have just the client for him."

roland3337 · 2011-08-30T01:12:31+00:00

One of the things that is so repellent about the mental health field for men, is the 'Social Justice' piece that is shoved down students' throats. All of the ills that minorities live with are theoretically a product of racism/sexism. And who is most guilty of racism/sexism? Men. Particularly white men.

The tragic irony is this: Men as a group, are profoundly short-changed and abused by society, yet they are the ones that are most vilified by the profession that should otherwise help them get things straightened the fuck out.

Shit like this keeps me awake at night, shaking with indignant rage.

logrusmage · 2011-08-30T00:11:23+00:00

Men earn only one in five of all master’s degrees awarded in psychology, down from half in the 1970s.

Sexism... right?

ThePigman · 2011-08-30T01:23:55+00:00

"Men earn only one in five of all master’s degrees awarded in psychology, down from half in the 1970s."

So men need some affirmative action in Universities, or is that only the answer when it's women who are underrepresented?

Offensive_Brute · 2011-08-29T22:14:45+00:00

psychology was used against feminists in the early part of the 20th century, it was important for them to make themselves heard in that field, unfortunately now the field is feminized, and I'm not just talking about the fact that women account for a majority of the practitioners, but rather that the field is full of theory and rhetoric, that is from a masculine perspective, nonsense. It makes no sense to the man, because it originated in the mind of a female, with a females perception of and orientation toward the world, and for a man, the mental emotional landscape of the woman, is as foreign as the surface of mars.

cattypakes · 2011-08-30T05:34:34+00:00

FEMINISTS ARRHHHGHAGGLKA;SDFKFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

2011-08-30T13:50:47+00:00

The worst part of this for the psych profession is that....it's no longer a profession.

And for me, a customer I say, yeah!

Psychologists are criminals. They are complicit in a Josef Mengele like experiment turning a healing art into a political tool.

How many millions of men are abused by psychologists everyday? Every man seeing one. Every man who has seen on in the last 40 years.

PAS isn't a entity? Please. Men are naturally aggresive and dangerous? Please.

This is psychology. The same people that made the torture plans at Abu Ghraib made the plan my ex used to emotionally damage me when she left me. I can even tell you the name of the criminal. They didn't hide, they testified about my fitness from interviewing my ex. They never met me.

This is psychology.

Psychologists should be ashamed.

IncrediblyFatMan · 2011-08-29T21:38:39+00:00

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Title	The feminization of mental health: As a future mental health provider I found this article amazing.
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Date	August 29, 2011 8:33 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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