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Men, masculinity and mental health, with Ronald F. Levant, EdD

Speaking of Psychology

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Are You a Gun Owner?

There's a database of school shooters maintained by a psychologist, Peter Langham. If you go into the database and search for the term masculinity, 18 cases come up. Men who in various ways feel that they do not measure up,. suffer discrepancy strain, feel their masculinity is threatened. So I really think threatened masculinity is what we have to kind of look at if we are going to solve the horrendous gun violence problem in our country.

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