the social construction and learning of gender are intimately tied to the way people experience, express, and respond to problems in their lives. this is particularly true in the context of men's mental health. common masculine social norms such as self-reliance and emotional control can make it difficult for men to seek help when they are suffering, or even to acknowledge their own subjective distress. Moreover, the actions involved in marking oneself as appropriately masculine in particular contexts can produce significant variations in the way men account for emotional distress, depending on who is listening and what is at stake in a particular interaction (schwab, addis, Reigeluth, & Berger, 2015). Gender is a ubiquitous aspect of mental health, present in contexts ranging from formal diagnostic criteria to the ways individuals label, communicate, and cope with problems in their lives.this chapter explores intersections between gender and mental health through a more focused frame of research on depression and help-seeking Men's dePRessIon and helP-seekInG thRouGh the lenses oF GendeR MIchael e. addIs and ethan hoFFMan

In this account of the Obedience to Authority experiments, we offer a richer and more dynamic depiction of the subjects' acts and reactions. To paraphrase Milgram, our account tries to examine the central elements of the situation as perceived by its research subjects. We describe a model of the experimenter-subject system that moves beyond experimentalism and humanism, positing instead a model that considers experimenter-subject relations and extends both spatially and temporally past the experiment's traditionally assumed limits: the walls of the laboratory and its canonical methods. Following Butler and Krause, we propose an approach that attends to quotidian, subtle, and unregistered ways of acting otherwise. Taking the Yale archive's collection of Milgram's subject files, audio recordings, and notes as historical traces of the experimentersubject system, our analysis introduces a grounded understanding of how Milgram's cut between obedience and disobedience renders invisible all but the most explicit manifestations of resistance or ways of acting otherwise. Investigating Milgram's work through an experimenter-subject systems model illuminates previously undocumented affective and temporal dimensions of laboratory life and serves as a template for assessing other experimental situations.

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Men’s psychological well-being has in recent decades garnered increasing attention in research, clinical practice, and larger society. Dewey’s insightful case study provides an occasion for reflecting on the multiple conceptual lenses that can be used to understand and work with masculinity in psychotherapy. In this commentary, we discuss how these conceptualizations of masculinity facilitate different approaches to psychotherapy at the levels of treatment planning and intervention. We offer our own approach to masculine identity work, noting specific points of contrast with the approach illustrated by Dewey. Finally, we critically explore the clinical and societal implications of concepts like "toxic masculinity" and "healthy masculinity" in light of social justice pursuits for gender equality. Throughout, we emphasize the importance for clinicians to make deliberate choices about how masculinity is conceptualized and to consider the pragmatic consequences of these conceptual choices.