Should Dads Really Go To Therapy?

We live in a decidedly "therapeutic culture".

There are a million questions we could ask about the implications of this, especially as it relates to fatherhood and motherhood, but the one we focus on today is, "Is embracing this therapeutic culture maladaptive for men?"

Put another way, we discuss whether fathers are different enough from mothers that the question of therapy itself has to be broken down among gender lines.

As always, we believe fatherhood and motherhood are the anchor points of gender. The entire REASON for gender.

So, it makes sense that we talk about roles and how each member of the family could or perhaps even should approach therapy.

Hit play to find out if dads should approach therapy differently.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:25 Has therapeutic culture done some kind of damage to fatherhood?

2:48 Boys vs. girls talking about their feelings (Christina Hoff Summers Clip

5:55 Gender impact on therapy

8:04 Modern and ancient world collide over therapy

11:45 Therapy in the Sopranos

18:59 Therapy to become a victim

29:15 The risk of being too extreme and not having a support network

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Resources Mentioned:

Tyler Graham:

https://www.3mphfatherhood.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/3mphfatherhood/

Philip Dosa:

https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDosa/

Christina Hoff Sommers on Dad Saves America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKe8BxvjZIs

Dewayne Noel on Modern Wisdom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8ma6fmb1A

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBYHTV2D

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F

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