Practical Tools
Men are not, contrary to the stereotype, immune to worry. They are, however, remarkably creative in their methods of not dealing with it — methods that tend to work briefly, poorly, and at increasing cost.
Work And Retirement
If you retired over a decade ago and still find yourself back at the office every time you close your eyes, you are not going mad. You are, however, more interesting to psychologists than you might like to be.
Body and Mind
Birdwatching has an image problem. It is associated, in the popular imagination, with a specific type of person standing in a field in waterproof clothing, writing something in a notebook, apparently content. This article is an argument that the 'apparent content' part is not a coincidence.
Body and Mind
Men have an extraordinary capacity for explaining away symptoms that would send most sensible people to a doctor. The chest pain is probably nothing. The lump has probably always been there. The persistent fatigue is probably just stress.
Relationships
Sex in long-term relationships is the most comprehensively mishandled topic in popular psychology. The shelves groan with books promising to reignite, rekindle and generally re-something your sex life. Most of them are nonsense. Here's why.
Work And Retirement
There comes a point in most working lives, a man looks up from whatever he's doing and thinks: is this it? The honest answer, for a significant number of people, is yes. This article is about what to do with that.
Life Stages And Transitions
The shed has been mischaracterised for decades as a place men go to avoid their responsibilities. The evidence suggests it is, in fact, a place men go to remain capable of meeting them.
Life Stages And Transitions
Death is the one appointment nobody misses, yet rarely gets discussed. Men, in particular, have developed an impressive range of techniques for not thinking about it — most of which turn out to be thinking about it differently rather than not thinking about it at all.
Relationships
There are approximately 4,000 licensed medications available on the NHS. Not one of them is a pint with people you like. This is, on the evidence, an oversight.
Practical Tools
Behavioural activation is one of the best-evidenced techniques in clinical psychology. It is also, in its basic form, the instruction to do things when you don't feel like doing things. Which sounds, on the face of it, like advice your grandmother could have given you for free.
Body and Mind
Testosterone has become the explanation of choice for an impressive range of male problems — aggression, risk-taking, mid-life misery, and the invention of the leaf blower. The reality is considerably more interesting and considerably less tidy.
Relationships
Loneliness among men has reached levels that would, if it were a physical disease, prompt a public health emergency. Instead it gets a shrug, a suggestion to join a club, and a change of subject.