A Man Would Have To Be Mad.....

....to go to see a therapist these days. Not that many men do, of course. When not polishing my armour, cleaning my sword and engaging in battle, I moonlighted as a Psychologist for upward of quarter of a century and my consulting rooms saw lines of women, some bringing their children, some their husbands, but few men on their own. I was not surprised at the distribution: I know enough about men and about women.  Men try hard to sort things out for themselves. That is far and away their best solution today. 

The Profession has been taken over ( I have long since moved on) by women, mostly still with the cradle marks on their rumps and a feminist chip on their shoulders. The Professional Association are dominated by leftists and weak men, lesbians and those 'attracted' to perversions. They are churned out by the Universities which have long fallen to Marxism and Feminism. Hey, just my observations, OK?

I am quite sure that some people, men as well as women, are in need of the wisdom and perspectives of a sound shrink; the problem is finding a sound one.

Most are captured by fanciful and often dangerous ideologies that are a very long way from a psychological discipline.  The ubiquitous Zozchial Verker is a fast -and easy track to infiltration. And the effects of such are damaging to women, children and men - and to society. 

Recently it has affected even commerial manufacturers and retailers. The Gillette advertisment  the other week (I won't soil the bar with it here) demeaned and calumnised men (and even boys) outrageously, going well beyond the now 'normal' advertisers' trope of making men look foolish and inept. What could possibly go wrong ? 

Perhaps something could start to go right, when we consider the response to it.  Other more resonable and sensitive commercial enterprises have quickly countered.

The American Psychological Association has even gone so far, after giving its stamp of approval to at least half a dozen 'mental illness' / perversions of just a few years ago, as to 'authorise' a complete rejection and repudiation of normal, healthy masculinity. 

The Association has fallen. It is now not fit for purpose. It is a dangerous sinkhole.

Denis Prager dropped by and gave his view. He had some tips for choosing a sound professional.

American Psychological Association Has Made Choosing a Therapist Easy   

The American Psychological Association has, in its words, issued 

“its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys.” 

These guidelines “draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage.”

 https://patriotpost.us/opinion/60683

Three observations:

1) The last thing American males need today is less masculinity.

If you need proof, ask women who are looking for a husband whether the men they date exhibit too much masculinity, too little masculinity or just the right amount. I have talked to hundreds of women on my radio show (every week I have a “Male/Female Hour”), at speeches and in private who are dating to find a spouse. 

Not one has said men today are too masculine. Virtually all of them have said men today lack masculinity.

And why wouldn’t men lack masculinity? A vast number of boys grow up either with no father or with a father they rarely see. 

Their lives are dominated by women 

— their mother, virtually all their teachers, probably their school principal and probably their therapist.

As if that were not bad enough, many of the single mothers of these American boys are angry at the man who never married them, or at the man who divorced them, or at men in general. In addition, these boys’ women teachers suppress their natural testosterone-driven male behaviors. 

And now their teachers increasingly tell them they may not even be a boy.

Of course, some men are boors — demanding sex on the first date, sending sex-filled messages, etc. But most men know boorishness is not masculinity. Such behaviors emanate not from masculinity but from poor upbringing and/or the sexual revolution, which taught men and women that the sex drives of men and women are the same.

Many women are boors too. One can list, just as easily, a catalogue of nasty female behaviour and attitude. Not that any product advertiser will point it out with a cosh.

But as psychoanalyst Erica Komisar wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, it is “a recipe for mental illness” to tell boys that “aggression, competitiveness and protectiveness is a sign of sickness.”

2) This is another example of the most important rule of contemporary life: The left ruins everything it touches.

The left has ruined the arts; the universities; high schools; the nuclear family; mainstream Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism; the Boy Scouts; and journalism. And it is now doing the same to the sciences: Universities are increasingly choosing science faculty based on gender and race rather than on scientific expertise.

Psychology and psychiatry have long been homes to left-wing fools (recall the 1964 example of 1,189 psychiatrists declaring then-presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater “psychologically unfit”). But the APA statement will do even more harm.

The American Psychological Association goes beyond defining “traditional masculinity” as “on the whole, harmful.” It urges therapists to help men “identify how they have been harmed by discrimination against those who are gender nonconforming.” 

That’s right. Your son’s psychotherapist will explain to him how it is entirely normal for a boy his age (beginning in kindergarten) to wear a dress, and that regarding an 8-year-old boy in a dress as not quite healthy is what is not quite healthy. In addition, the APA hopes this therapist will reassure your son that he, too, may well choose to be a girl.

In the words of Komisar, this is “an ideological claim transformed into a clinical treatment recommendation.” That “ideological claim” is, of course, leftism.

It also has to be pointed out that most people have strong objections to injecting hormones into cattle to make them more meaty, but say little about injecting hormones into a child to change its sex. 

3) The APA statement makes choosing a psychotherapist simple.

The hardest part of starting psychotherapy is figuring out how to choose a psychotherapist. If you choose the wrong one, you will not only be wasting a great deal of time and money; you will not be helped, and you might well be harmed.

So, how does one go about choosing a psychotherapist? The APA just made the task much simpler: Just ask any therapist you are considering for yourself or someone else, 

“Do you agree with the American Psychological Association that ‘traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful’?”

If the therapist agrees, thank him or her for the time and leave. 

If the therapist starts giving a prolonged response, leave. 

Any therapist who cannot unequivocally condemn the APA statement is unworthy of your time and your money, let alone your psyche. 

Many will try to weasel out of directly agreeing (or disagreeing) with the statement. They will tell you that sometimes masculinity is a problem. But they are just being careful not to lose you as a potential client. Such a statement is meaningless: There is nothing that cannot be harmful at times. That includes femininity as much as masculinity, and it includes such normally good things as water (a lot of people drown, after all).

Without “traditional masculinity,” civilization is lost. Ask anyone you know who agrees with using the term “the greatest generation” to describe the generation that fought World War II whether the men of that generation would have fought, much less won, without “traditional masculinity.”

Do not trust therapists who will not condemn the APA statement. 

They are either a fool or a coward. 

They may well be very kind and sincere. But that means nothing. 

You or your child will not be helped (just) by kindness and sincerity. 

You or your child will only be helped by wisdom.

Now there is wisdom. 

I gave the man a drink.

Have one too.

Pax