Monday, August 14, 2023

Rethinking Therapy Settings: Insights from "Redpill Psychology"

What can possibly be happening in the minds of men sitting in female dominated space, box of tissue at their side, with a woman saying ā€œtell me how you feelā€ about this or that? Even worse, asking such probing questions with the implication that he is an empty emotional vessel in need of her redemption.

Lea Winerman, a staff writer for the American Psychological Association asks us to ā€œimagine the Marlboro man in therapy.ā€

Imagine instead a therapy office in the boiler room of a ship, in a workshop, a park, a building site, mechanics shed or a sports locker room, with seating arrangements that allowed men to sit at 45 degree angles or side by side ā€” engaged in some kind of task if they wished.  
       
Imagine too if we were to engage in some kind of typical male play or industry ā€“ not just Jungian sandplay or water-color art therapies as suits the more effeminate sensibilities of women, but hands on therapy ā€“ while driving a truck, fixing the engine of a car or building a piece of furniture.  
       
Or, if you prefer, something recreational. Standing on a pier fishing, hiking up the side of a hill or sitting beside a campfire.  
       
When it comes to communication, men like a medium, something through which to channel their energy.

To summarize, a new therapy for men might consider utilizing new settings for conducting consultations, including the use of a wider range of manual activities ā€“ occupations and crafts ā€“ as therapeutic mediums.

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