Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, public speaker, poet and podcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and 2021’s The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness and Our Bodies .
Today, as a society, we are under a great deal of stress. Men and women, LGBTQ people, racialized people, Indigenous people and new immigrants are experiencing these rapidly changing times differently. An in-depth discussion of these differences would take a book, not a column, so, in this piece I have elected to focus on men.
Richard V. Reeves, a British American scholar, argues that men are struggling to adapt to rapid and unsettling social transformations. He contends