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Gay, Irish, human rights advocate. Much therapeutic experience working with men who are suicidal, self-harming or otherwise traumatised. Doing my PhD on men's emotional problems,their help-seeking behaviours and what happens when they actually seek help. A long-term, pro-active interest in preventing child abuse and supporting the adult survivors of such abuse.
Strong Silent Types
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- February 13, 2010
- 10:59 PM
- 861 views
Backdoor Entry to Gay Eugenics
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Frisell et al. (2010) contribute toward that maddening science of linking homosexuality to mental illness and I wonder, why bother?... Read more »
Frisell, T., Lichtenstein, P., Rahman, Q., & Långström, N. (2009) Psychiatric morbidity associated with same-sex sexual behaviour: influence of minority stress and familial factors. Psychological Medicine, 40(02), 315. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709005996
- February 8, 2011
- 08:33 AM
- 855 views
Healthy Men Bottle Up Their Emotions
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
The crisis of masculinity dictates that men must all be hurtling toward hell at a rate of knots, with nothing in clear sight to redeem us. However, could it be that padded out panic is as manufactured as frozen peas? Possibly. For sure though, much that is said about how men do emotions and do help for emotions that get too much borrows loosely from the truth. The truth, itself, is remarkably more diverse and complex. ... Read more »
Levant, R., Wimer, D., & Williams, C. (2011) An evaluation of the Health Behavior Inventory-20 (HBI-20) and its relationships to masculinity and attitudes towards seeking psychological help among college men. Psychology of Men , 12(1), 26-41. DOI: 10.1037/a0021014
Levant, R, Wimer, D, & Williams, C. (2011) An Evaluation of the Health Behavior Inventory-20 (HBI-20) and Its Relationship to Masculinity and Attitudes Towards Seeking Psychological Help Among College Men. Psychology of Men . info:/
- March 26, 2011
- 05:54 AM
- 817 views
Making Up Gay Youth Suicides as We Go Along
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Does research evidence have to be factual or does creative truth bending provide a necessary contrast? Waidzunas (2011) seems to stay silent on this but does deftly show how a big claim, poorly supported, can become canon law and effectively 'black boxed' from scrutiny, forever. Well, at least until now, perhaps.... Read more »
Waidzunas, T. (2011) Young, Gay, and Suicidal: Dynamic Nominalism and the Process of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics. Science, Technology . info:/
- May 7, 2011
- 01:50 AM
- 804 views
Mental Health Services Do Not Prevent Suicide
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Wish as we may, the much practised practice of bunging suicidal individuals into psychiatric care (of one form or another)has not yielded the kind of improvements in the overall suicide rate that one would have expected. Why not? A point not really answered by Johannessen et al. (2011) in their little paper on how bigger mental health bucks in Norway have had null impact on the overall suicide rate in that country. Should we spend more or try another trick? On that latter tricky point, the authors (2011) appear well and truly confounded. ... Read more »
Johannessen HA, Dieserud G, Claussen B, & Zahl PH. (2011) Changes in mental health services and suicide mortality in Norway: an ecological study. BMC health services research, 68. PMID: 21443801
- May 28, 2010
- 11:30 PM
- 772 views
Violent Men in Group Therapy
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Shamai and Buchbinder (2009) researched the subjective experiences of men who have participated in perpetrator groups, to find some gains but also, many paradoxes. ... Read more »
Shamai, M., & Buchbinder, E. (2009) Control of the Self: Partner-Violent Men's Experience of Therapy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25(7), 1338-1362. DOI: 10.1177/0886260509340538
- May 16, 2011
- 08:51 PM
- 748 views
Gay Men Get More Cancer
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
News that gay men get more cancer than straight men (Boehmer et al. 2011) is not new, even when not taking into consideration the insidious impact of HIV. Why, as in this study, gay men are twice as likely as straight men to get cancer is not successfully resolved, other than to stress the critical role played by anal sex and I would add, HPV. ... Read more »
Boehmer, U., Miao, X., & Ozonoff, A. (2011) Cancer survivorship and sexual orientation. Cancer. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25950
- September 16, 2010
- 11:24 AM
- 745 views
Cheating Men Love Their Girlfriends More
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Anderson (2010) discovers that cheating men crave ‘emotional monogamy’ with their partners and to have their physical desires fulfilled through multiple, additional sexual contacts. Many such men claim to love their partners even more because they cheat on them.
... Read more »
Anderson, E. (2010) 'At Least With Cheating There is an Attempt at Monogamy': Cheating and Monogamism Among Undergraduate Heterosexual Men. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. info:/
- February 19, 2010
- 06:15 AM
- 741 views
Women Love Men like Concrete...
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
We sometimes forget that guys don't end up being big ugly brutes just because that's what guys like. Sometimes, as Taylor and Quayle (2010) discovered, that's what women like too.... Read more »
Talbot, K., & Quayle, M. (2010) The Perils of Being a Nice Guy: Contextual Variation in Five Young Women's Constructions of Acceptable Hegemonic and Alternative Masculinities. Men and Masculinities. DOI: 10.1177/1097184X09350408
- February 26, 2010
- 06:54 PM
- 738 views
More Femininity Equals Less Deviant Men
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Nofziger (2010) has put forward the idea that the loss of self-control so often associated with deviant behaviour might not be a matter of sex differences but rather, differences in gender identity.... Read more »
Nofziger, S. (2010) A Gendered Perspective on the Relationship Between Self-Control and Deviance. Feminist Criminology, 5(1), 29-50. DOI: 10.1177/1557085109353892
- November 12, 2010
- 06:50 PM
- 737 views
Dutch Men Need Bigger Condoms
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
By surveying 2,350 men in five European countries, primarily by using the ‘Condom Fit and Feel Scale’, Dodge et al. (2010) came up with the conclusion that while most of these men had been happy with their prior condom experiences, there were some grumblings from the Dutch and the Slovenians. An interesting addition to the reasons behind 'why' some men choose not to engage in protected, safe sex, even though few of us could claim ‘ignorance’ on the importance of this subject. ... Read more »
Dodge, B., Reece, M., Herbenick, D., & Schick, V. (2010) Experiences of Condom Fit and Feel Among Men in Five European Nations. International Journal of Men's Health, 9(3), 175-183. DOI: 10.3149/jmh.0903.175
- February 16, 2010
- 06:32 AM
- 734 views
Men Who Can't Stop Hitting People
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Cohn et al. (2010) make some links between men's emotional (dys)regulation, restrictive emotionality and hitting people.... Read more »
Cohn, A., Jakupcak, M., Seibert, L., Hildebrandt, T., & Zeichner, A. (2010) The role of emotion dysregulation in the association between men’s restrictive emotionality and use of physical aggression. Psychology of Men , 11(1), 53-64. DOI: 10.1037/a0018090
- April 7, 2010
- 12:13 AM
- 731 views
Social Adversity Precedes Psychosis Onset
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Does mental disorder spring from the ether or is it the product of unhealthy environments? While biopsychiatrists would favour the former, Morgan and Hutchinson (2009) show that disadvantage and discrimination are behind the exponentially higher rate of mental disorder amongst Black Caribbean and Black African people in the UK (when compared with White people in the UK). The problem, thus, to be fixed, is not 'them' but the social adversity to which those citizens are unfortunately exposed. ... Read more »
Morgan, C., & Hutchinson, G. (2009) The social determinants of psychosis in migrant and ethnic minority populations: a public health tragedy. Psychological Medicine, 40(05), 705. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709005546
- February 21, 2011
- 09:19 AM
- 731 views
Are Overly-Sexual Men Really Depressed?
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
A commentary by Ogrodniczuk and Oliffe (2011) on the disputed topic of men and depression. Do men really mask their blues behind a curtain of violence and if so, what does this say about the credibility of depression as a stand-alone disease state? Gender role socialisation always seems like such a good friend when meandering through such contentious matters, until you think beyond the obvious to wonder, hang on, how can it be that when men get depressed they invariably turn to the biff?... Read more »
Ogrodniczuk, J., & Oliffe, J. (2011) Men and Depression. Canadian Family Physician, 57(2), 153-155. info:/
- December 4, 2010
- 10:29 PM
- 722 views
Gay Men Take Drugs to Fit In
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
It is widely assumed that gay men take more drugs and have more sex than their straight counterparts have, but the motivation behind such enhanced behaviours tends to veer toward psychopathological explanations. Could it really be that simple? Ueno (2010) argues for greater contemplation.... Read more »
Ueno, K. (2010) Mental Health Differences between Young Adults with and without Same-Sex Contact: A Simultaneous Examination of Underlying Mechanisms. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(4), 391-407. DOI: 10.1177/0022146510386793
- November 24, 2010
- 10:22 AM
- 711 views
Ejaculation as Defined by Hegemonic Masculinity
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
While much is written about the symbolism of the phallus, little, it would seem, is written about the complex relationship between the ejaculation process and hegemonic masculinity. Johnson (2010) wishes that we would all think more about how masculine ideals sustain and are sustained by this highly gendered, bodily function.... Read more »
Johnson, M. (2010) "Just Getting Off": The Inseparability of Ejaculation and Hegemonic Masculinity. The Journal of Men's Studies, 18(3), 238-248. DOI: 10.3149/jms.1803.238
- April 9, 2010
- 10:29 PM
- 702 views
The Bad Male Habit of Dropping Dead Early
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Pinkhasov et al. (2010) discuss why it is that in developed countries around the world, life expectancy for men is several years less than for women. Their attention to actual disease states such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, excludes a broader, sociocultural approach to the problem. I should think that if you want to reduce the 'gender disparity', as the authors call it, between the life expectancy of men and women, you first need to understand how gender practices influence health. ... Read more »
Pinkhasov, R., Shteynshlyuger, A., Hakimian, P., Lindsay, G., Samadi, D., & Shabsigh, R. (2010) Are men shortchanged on health? Perspective on life expectancy, morbidity, and mortality in men and women in the United States. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 64(4), 465-474. DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02289.x
- January 19, 2011
- 10:08 AM
- 702 views
Japanese Men Drink, Eat Fatty Food, Have Fun and Die
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
If you have ever had the pleasure of being in a boisterous Tokyo bar at night, eating and drinking amongst a din that would sear the armour off a tank,you get the feeling that this is what pure, hedonistic joy must be like. And, according to this article by Ikeda et al. (2011), Japanese men love it as well. The downer seems to be that while all that upbeat male bonding is good for lowering stress, the accompanying fat and alcohol brings on health effects of a less favourable kind.... Read more »
Ikeda A, Kawachi I, Iso H, Inoue M, Tsugane S, & JPHC Study Group. (2011) Gender difference in the association between social support and metabolic syndrome in Japan: the 'enkai' effect?. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 65(1), 71-7. PMID: 19933686
- June 19, 2010
- 01:30 AM
- 696 views
Gender Differences in Depression Across Europe
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Van de Velde et al. (2010) have a go at adding to the existing small pot of evidence as to why women in Europe seem to be, as a rule, much more depressed than men.... Read more »
Van de Velde, S., Bracke, P., & Levecque, K. (2010) Gender differences in depression in 23 European countries. Cross-national variation in the gender gap in depression. Social Science . DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.035
- October 9, 2010
- 11:04 PM
- 691 views
Testosterone Made Me Gay!
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Research by Bao and Swabb (2010), which leans pretty heavily on testosterone's alleged, determinative role in sexual orientation, gender identity, psychopathology,and paedophilia, etc. In staking their considerable claims, the authors dismiss the role of social context on such aforementioned behaviours.... Read more »
Bao AM, & Swaab DF. (2010) Sex differences in the brain, behavior, and neuropsychiatric disorders. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 16(5), 550-65. PMID: 20889965
- September 25, 2010
- 09:38 AM
- 690 views
Social Work Radicalism Repels Childhood Adversity
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Social work, as a profession, has a long-standing, historical involvement in child protection. This article by Davidson et al. (2010) suggests we should stop to regroup to get a clearer picture of what childhood adversity really is, in all its inglorious complexity.... Read more »
Davidson, G., Devaney, J., & Spratt, T. (2010) The Impact of Adversity in Childhood on Outcomes in Adulthood: Research Lessons and Limitations. Journal of Social Work. info:/
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