Male Psychology Section

• Barry JA, Kingerlee R, Seager MJ and Sullivan L (Eds.) (2019). The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health. London: Palgrave Macmillan IBSN 978-3-030-04384-1

• Bates, E. A., & Taylor, J. C. (Eds.). (2019). Intimate partner violence: new perspectives in research and practice. London: Routledge.

• Liddon, L. and Barry, J.A. (2021). Perspectives in Male Psychology: An Introduction. New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-119-68535-7

‘Helping Male Survivors of Sexual Violation to Recover: An integrative approach – stories from therapy’ by Sarah Van Gogh

"...‘Helping Male Survivors of Sexual Violation to Recover', can be considered a valuable asset to therapists of any school who want to learn effective approaches to help men to overcome the trauma of child sexual abuse."

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• Barry, J. A. (2020). Job satisfaction, relationship, stability, and valuing one's health are the strongest predictors of men's mental well-being. Psychreg Journal of Psychology, 4(3), 4 - 27
   
• Barry JA, Walker R, Liddon L, & Seager MJ (2020). Reactions to contemporary narratives about masculinity: A pilot study. Psychreg Journal of Psychology, 4, 2, 8-21. Available online
   
• Liddon, L. Kingerlee, R. & Barry, J.A. (2017). Gender differences in preferences for psychological treatment, coping strategies, and triggers to help-seeking.(link is external) British Journal of Clinical Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjc.12147.
   
• Barry, J. A., & Liddon, L. (2020). Child contact problems and family court issues are related to chronic mental health problems for men following family breakdown. Psychreg Journal of Psychology, 4(3), 57-66
   
• Liddon L, Kingerlee R, Seager M & Barry JA (2019). What are the factors that make a male-friendly therapy? in Barry JA, Kingerlee R, Seager MJ and Sullivan L (Eds.) (2019). The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health(link is external). London: Palgrave Macmillan
   
• Roper T. & Barry, J.A. (2016). Is having a haircut good for your mental health? New Male Studies, 5(2), 58-75.
   
• Wright, K.J.R. & McLeod, J. (2016). Gender differences in long-term outcome of Brief Therapy for employees. New Male Studies, 5(2), 88-110.

• Practice Briefing - psychological interventions to help male adults
• Practice briefing – Psychologcal interventions to help male adults (Lithuanian)
• Practice briefing – Psychologcal interventions to help male adults (Portuguese)

'How is a man supposed to be a man?'

Editor of The Psychologist Jon Sutton reports from a British Psychological Society Male Psychology Section mini-conference.

Being a Man - putting life before death

Martin Seager and David Wilkins address the need for this special feature on male psychology.

Engaging with the emotional lives of men

Roger Kingerlee, Duncan Precious, Luke Sullivan and John Barry consider the design of male-specific services and interventions.

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Position currently vacant.

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Dr Kevin Wright is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the BPS.

He previously worked as a High Intensity integrative psychotherapy in the IAPT (Improved Access to Psychological Treatment) service in south London and is still now also an EAP affiliate for various provider companies (Employment Assistance Programmes) offering free brief therapy to employees and their family members via their employer including treating many accident victims suffering from PTSD.

He is an Expert witness carrying out psychological and cognitive assessments for the family (custody & care proceedings), immigration & criminal courts and he also runs numerous resilience workshops for senior legal professionals working for the CPS. He is also committee member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (UK Chapter). His PhD research focussed on stress in the work place and the changes in coping strategies as a result of brief therapy treatment via an EAP programme, through this he became interested in the gender differences in responses.

He is at present focussing how to offer a brief effective protocol for the treatment of PTSD also looking at gender differences in responses; the role/importance of fathers in the prevention of crime in young men.

This position is vacant

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John Barry is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at University College London, clinical hypnotherapist, and author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in psychology and medicine, including many on Male Psychology. He has also co-authored letters to The Psychologist to raise awareness of issues relevant to Male Psychology.

John co-founded both the Male Psychology Network and the Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and has been lead organiser of the Male Psychology Conference (2014-present), and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health (2019). Previous to the role of Chair, he has been the Honorary Secretary of the Male Psychology Section.

John’s interest is not only in Male Psychology; his PhD was on the Psychological Aspects of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which is also the title of his book published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019). His new book, Perspectives in Male Psychology: An Introduction, co-authored with Louise Liddon, is being published by Wiley in Dec 2020

Dr Rebecca Owens is a lecturer in Psychology at the University off Sunderland, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Chartered member of the BPS.

Becci has worked at Sunderland for ten years, during her PhD as an academic tutor, and gaining a permanent contract on completion of her PhD in 2016. Her PhD examined competitiveness in men, taking an evolutionary perspective on sex differences in physiology, endocrinology, and how these impact on male psychology. This led to an interest in sex differences generally, with a focus on male psychology specifically. Becci is interested in distortions in the perceptions of men and women, such as the Gamma bias; the impact of gender roles on mental health and wellbeing, and sex differences in the response to trauma and psychological distress.

Other research areas Becci is interested in, separately and in conjunction with male psychology, is body modifications, and mating strategies, sex and relationships. Becci is also a co-author of a chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health 2019 “From Fetuses to Boys to Men: The Impact of Testosterone on Male Lifespan Development.”

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Kiran Marwaha is a current MSc student studying Psychological Therapies via distance learning at Queen Mary University.

Her interest in male psychology was sparked by reading the shocking statistic about men being 3 times more likely to take their own lives than women and began to ask herself whether we were missing out crucial parts of men's experiences in psychological research and intervention. As a person with a disability herself, Kiran is excited to take up this position as Disability rep to look how the experience of disability could be shaped in various ways by being male. This is a broad topic area and she is keen to look at it from many angles using whatever research methodology suits our questions.

Her other interests in psychology include criticality around distress and community psychology. Kiran has been doing comedy improv for several months which she loves and is also a quizzer in the quiz league of London.

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Dennis Relojo-Howell is the founder of Psychreg and editor-in-chief of Psychreg Journal of Psychology. He interviews people within psychology, mental health, and well-being on his YouTube channel, The DRH Show. Psychreg is recognised by Vuelio as one of the top mental health blogs in the UK and has been named ‘Blogger of the Year’ by Mental Health Blog Awards.

Dennis did an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire. His research interests encompass blog psychology, expressive writing, and mental health. He sits on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals.

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