Invisible Man: My Experience as a Male Trainee Clinical Psychologist in a Female-Dominated System — The Centre for Male Psychology

True_Truth · 2025-06-26T00:29:03+00:00

This guy trained to be a clinical psychologist in a program that was mostly women. He felt like an outsider just for being male. His experiences and views were often ignored or judged unfairly.

He also noticed that the training barely covered issues that affect men like male suicide, emotional shutdown, or even abuse toward men. Most of the focus was on women and LGBTQ+ issues, which are important too, but it felt like men’s struggles were invisible.

He’s not angry, just pointing out that if therapists aren’t trained to understand all types of people, including straight men, they won’t be able to help them properly.

Basically, if men are hurting but no one’s trained to notice or talk about it, that’s a big gap in mental health care.

Pixelson2000 · 2025-06-25T23:16:53+00:00

Bizarre that females dominate the field of male psychology.

Heavy_Consequence441 · 2025-06-26T01:50:04+00:00

Psychology (therapy) has become a complete joke. Mostly just women going to get validation about their poor decisions

No point in going to it as a man. The world doesn't care about our problems. Only other men who can relate to you will care.

ThrowALifeline89 · 2025-06-26T03:47:13+00:00

There simply need to be more men working in fields like mental health and medicine. Male patients should not have to put up with women who are proven to care significantly less about men.

Acousmetre78 · 2025-06-26T05:45:47+00:00

I’m glad my female therapists cares about straight men’s issues. She’s even starting up an all male support group/ therapy session this summer for free.

Euphoric_Passenger · 2025-06-26T06:25:23+00:00

Damn. Psychology does indeed attract the crazies uh

Same_Sentence_3470 · 2025-06-26T13:39:03+00:00

Invite the guy to a public place, openly talk about sex to provoke him to open up and say something then use it against him knowing that what the women said will never be used against them. I have seen this strategy used by women before. Most men are honest people and never see this trap coming.

alter_furz · 2025-06-26T11:44:26+00:00

Where is there a special programme for more men in psychology?

I guess it's having a long walk somewhere with the programme for more women in mining

Same_Sentence_3470 · 2025-06-26T13:34:41+00:00

Has anyone noticed that there are always societal efforts (advertising, financial incentives, etc.) and pressure to include women in Male Dominated Industries but when it’s a Female Dominated Industry (the entire fields of psychology, health care, education, media, etc.) they always use the excuse that men are just not interested in these fields?

SlowLearnerGuy · 2025-06-26T08:26:30+00:00

The field of psychology gives some useful insights into human behaviour at scale.

Clinical psychology, on the other hand, is a load of pseudoscientific rubbish, akin to astrology or the reading of tea leaves. At least the latter two are somewhat fun and tongue in cheek whereas psychologists peddle their delusions as informed and authoritative opinions.

Unfortunately most of society lack the critical thinking ability to see behind the curtain and understand what twaddle it all is.

pancakecel · 2025-06-26T18:49:03+00:00

seeing how the THREE men in my grad program were being treated was one of the things that motivated me to drop out. I went back for an MA in education at a program which was pretty well gender balanced.

Title	Invisible Man: My Experience as a Male Trainee Clinical Psychologist in a Female-Dominated System — The Centre for Male Psychology
Author	iainmf
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Date	June 25, 2025 10:38 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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