Editors:
- Explores current debates around male psychology
- Takes a lifespan approach to male psychology
- Addresses how positive steps forward can be taken for male mental health
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Front Matter
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About this book
Throughout, chapters question existing models of understanding and treating men’s mental health and explore new approaches, theories and interventions. This definitive handbook encapsulates a new wave of positive theory and practice in the field of male psychology and will be of great value to professionals, academics, and those working with males through the lifespan in any sector related to male mental health and wellbeing.
Keywords
- mental health
- male psychology
- male counselling
- interventions
- male suicide
- violent offending
- prenatal development
- Neuro-developmental disorders
- gender differences
- boy problem
- gaming addiction
- Fatherhood
- positive masculinity
- hypermasculinity
- gender distortion matrix
- Intimate Partner Violence
- feminism
- male sexuality
- Suicidal Ideation
Editors and Affiliations
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UCL, London, UK
John A. Barry
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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Wymondham, UK
Roger Kingerlee
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Change, Grow, Live, Dagenham/Southend, UK
Martin Seager
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Community Interest Company, Men’s Minds Matter, London, UK
Luke Sullivan
About the editors
Roger Kingerlee is a consultant clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Kingerlee specialises in male and veteran psychologies and complex trauma. He is co-writer of the Veterans' Stabilisation Programme with The Walnut Tree Project, and a member of the Male Psychology Network.
Martin Seager is a consultant clinical psychologist with the UK charity Change, Grow, Live. He spent over 30 years as a senior clinician, supervisor and manager in the NHS. He is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and activist in the mental health field and co-founder of the Male Psychology Network, and the Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.
Luke Sullivan is a clinical psychologist. He is the founder of Men’s Minds Matter, and also works for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in psychological crisis interventions for people at risk of suicide. He is a committee member of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and co-founder of the BPS Male Psychology Section.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health
Editors: John A. Barry, Roger Kingerlee, Martin Seager, Luke Sullivan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04383-4Published: 13 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04384-1Published: 01 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 715
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Gender Studies, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology