Biological males and females have instincts. Each of those sets of instincts are synonymous with “passion.”

Passion may pertain to romance and attraction, however passion may also pertain to life and death issues.

The SNL skit, “Man Park” illustrates the differences in sets of instincts between males and females in the scene, where they don’t understand each other very much, but that’s the “uncomfortable truth” revealed in the nature of humor. In this particular subject matter, we find the source of the popular cultural meme “toxic masculinity.”

It is the misunderstanding that gives rise to “not-sameness,” which gives rise to conflict, which gives rise to hatred (due to mutual understanding not being possible), which may give rise to at least emotional violence: bullying someone for their immutable traits (masculinity in this case), paired with a pejorative (“toxic”) suggestive of poor character, which is “mutable” or contains free-willed options for behavior.

Boys to some degree, speak this language of their fathers, as girls speak this language of their mothers. It doesn’t really get conveyed in words, but in attention to interests, and bonding over activity (which can include banter, humor, or simply conversational topics.) It’s not in the specific words, but the headlines that this “language” is spoken.

Welcome to the second episode of the new Men’s Psychology Podcast.

We’ll begin our studies with a series of over ten episodes in a series called Introduction to Men’s Psychology, with ten-minute sessions each.

This will establish a basis for how to start wondering about the specific features and dynamics in the thinking of men that is unique to them.

This particular lecture will discuss masculine instincts, as well as the vast proportion of completed suicides that are male (78%) and how that has something to do with the masculine instincts (or our disdain and cancellation of them as a culture.

We also lay the groundwork for the new, emerging psychotherapy models that will help males heal in a language that works for them.

Some of the useful resources you ought to look into include the only textbook in the world that’s on the mark regarding an academic understanding of the emerging and soon-to-be burgeoning psychology research studies on men: The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology, edited by Drs. John Barry, Martin Seager and Roger Kingerly.

Eventually, we’ll be moving to the Podcast being available only to paid subscribers, but for this course, we welcome everyone to tune in and comment.

Welcome to the first episode of the new Men’s Psychology Podcast.

We’ll begin our studies with a series of over ten episodes in a series called Introduction to Men’s Psychology, with ten minute sessions each.

This will establish a basis for how to start wondering about the specific features and dynamics in the thinking of men that is unique to them.

This particular lecture will be of the level to introduce the topic to professionals in healthcare, but since we tend to use everyday language in explaining psychology topics, we thought the brainy edge and the lingo of the field would be understandable and useful to our subscribers—people who have only found their way here by way of their higher than average intelligence, and more importantly their energetic curiosity about this important topic.

We are getting used to the amazing resources of Substack, and thought we’d start with some educational material here, but we plan on moving onto more conversational podcasts after this 10-12 week program, also seen on Apple Podcasts.

Some of the useful resources that you ought to look into include the only textbook in the world that’s on the mark as far as an academic understanding of the emerging and soon to be burgeoning psychology research studies on men: The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology, edited by Drs. John Barry, Martin Seager and Roger Kingerly.

Eventually we’ll be moving to the Podcast being available only to paid subscribers, but for this course we welcome everyone to tune in and comment.

Enjoy, and thank you.