Waldemar:

Good question!  The ToK is grounded in Gregg's experience as a  
*clinician* and, ultimately, that is where the  
rubber-will-hit-the-road for all this, from what I can tell.

So, if clinical psychology has developed in this direction -- which  
aligns with my own research -- what does that mean for where we take  
this "theorectical" work (and which *paradigm* caused this to happen)  
. . . ??

Mark

P.S. Perhaps this reference will be of some help.  I was at Leonard  
Schlain's book-launch in NYC for his "Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The  
Conflict Between Word and Image" and frequently recommend it to help  
understand what we are all going through.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Alphabet-2DVersus-2DGoddess-2DConflict-2DBetween_dp_0140196013&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=_PxOhSfR-p9S9YhyTW8uXdiVoNKcopaHJ05qr6U5n2A&s=vjojhiyiot1nXx4MPFs8WclveBwCdtA66D-IXg9wcNA&e=

Quoting "Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Mark:
>
> What is the point of your posting on males and psychology?
>
> Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
> (Perseveret et Percipiunt)
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Mark Stahlman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__vancouversun.com_opinion_columnists_douglas-2Dtodd-2Dboys-2Dand-2Dmen-2Ddisappearing-2Dfrom-2Dpsychology&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=kkXFE3uu7bx_HWQt51sMvuCBtJSlvpOLA8MAiTDaZJg&s=3o3fvTkduwwhE3ECpGjAv3DB3DWabZUIrvEOM2yqq80&e=
>>
>>
>> Douglas Todd: Boys and men disappearing from psychology
>> DOUGLAS TODD Updated: July 4, 2018
>>
>>
>> Males are disappearing from the field of North American psychology  
>> — both as research subjects and as psychotherapists.
>>
>> The evidence is overwhelming that psychological research is  
>> becoming heavily focused on girls’ and women’s issues, and that  
>> males are rapidly vanishing from psycho-therapeutic professions.
>>
>> The consequences of these dual trajectories, say specialists, is  
>> that the distinct emotional struggles of boys and men are largely  
>> being sidelined and that many psychotherapists are lacking  
>> expertise in dealing effectively with males’ psychological  
>> difficulties.
>>
>> A revealing study led by the University of B.C.’s Robinder Bedi  
>> found the vast majority of 293 research articles published over a  
>> 13-year period in the influential Canadian Journal of Counselling  
>> and Psychotherapy centred on female-specific topics.
>>
>> Research articles exclusively on female subjects out-numbered those  
>> on male subjects by four to one, Bedi discovered. When his team  
>> excluded a single special “men’s” edition of the psychotherapy  
>> journal from their survey, the ratio of female- to male-oriented  
>> articles in the journal soared to 15 to one.
>>
>>
>> “All of this is occurring despite … boys and men making up 34 per  
>> cent of individuals participating in counselling and psychology,”  
>> writes Bedi, an assistant professor of counselling psychology at UBC.
>>
>> “It appears that much of our knowledge about counselling Canadians  
>> has been based upon research samples composed predominantly of  
>> women and has been somewhat uncritically generalized to working  
>> with men,” write Bedi and co-authors Courtney Young, Jaleh Davari,  
>> Karen Springer and Daniel Kane in a peer-reviewed paper titled A  
>> Content Analysis of Gendered Research.
>>
>> Their overview of contemporary psychotherapeutic research in Canada  
>> dovetails with rising awareness across North America of a related  
>> development: That women are becoming even more predominant in  
>> counselling and psychology professions.
>>
>> The American Psychological Association, which represents roughly  
>> 90,000 clinical psychologists, found women outnumber men by more  
>> than two to one. And it’s quickly becoming more extreme: The ratio  
>> of female psychologists to male psychologists who are 35 and under  
>> jumps to nine to one.
>>
>> “The gender gap in the psychology workforce has widened,” says a  
>> report by the American Psychological Association. “This gender gap  
>> was even wider for racial/ethnic minority groups … It is important  
>> to understand both why a greater number of females have entered the  
>> workforce and why fewer males have entered the workforce, and more  
>> males have exited.”
>>
>> The ever-widening chasm among younger psychologists is similar in  
>> Canada and B.C. The spring edition of The Chronicle, published by  
>> the B.C. College of Psychologists, included a chart showing the  
>> province has roughly six registered female psychologists age 35 and  
>> under for every one male psychologist of that same age group.
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