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Men's Mental Health: Male Vulnerabilities and Chances for Tailored Interventions

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025

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  • Guest Editor

    Andreas Walther, PhDE-MailWebsite

    Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Interests: Depressive disorders; Men; Masculinity; Traditional male role norms; Gender role conflict; Male specific psychotherapy; Male specific pharmacotherapy; Pathophysiology of depressive disorders; Testosterone; steroid hormones; Molecular and cellular psychiatry; Healthy aging

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Dear Colleagues,


It gives me great pleasure to invite you to contribute an article to the special issue on Men's Mental Health: Male Vulnerabilities and Chances for Tailored Interventions. This special issue will include original research, communications, and review articles. The Journal of Men's Health provides the ideal setting to present new and innovative approaches to the treatment of mental health problems in men. In addition, it is important to identify male-specific risk and resilience factors that have an impact on men's mental health.


On the one hand, the different biology of men and women leads to gender-specific approaches in pharmacotherapy of mental disorders. For example, exciting progress is being made in the area of hormone therapies. On the other hand, being born male or female is one of the most important differentiating factors in our society and determines how a person is perceived, how one interacts with them, and what behavior is expected of them. Due to different gender role norms, psychopathologies also express themselves differently in men and women and require gender-sensitive diagnosis and treatment accordingly.


Therefore, it is time in this framework to summarize the current research on the field of Men's Mental Health and discuss new or future approaches.


Dr. Andreas Walther

Guest Editor

Keywords

Men’s mental health; Masculinity; Male depression; Alcohol use disorders; Suicide; Psychotherapy; Pharmacotherapy; Testosterone

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Approach and avoidance: understanding men's depression and life satisfaction via explicit motives and pathological narcissism

Silvain S Dang,Hanna Ogawa,John S Ogrodniczuk,John L Oliffe,Simon M Rice,Zac Seidler,David Kealy

DOI: 10.22514/jomh.2025.031

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Men's Mental Health: Male Vulnerabilities and Chances for Tailored Interventions)

Abstract ( 4460 ) PDF (1.43 MB) ( 190 ) Full Text

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Health professionals' perceptions of a group intervention to address men's psychosocial distress

Antonio Iáñez-Domínguez,María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez,Elena Morales-Marente

DOI: 10.22514/jomh.2025.114

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Men's Mental Health: Male Vulnerabilities and Chances for Tailored Interventions)

Abstract ( 2453 ) PDF (384.48 kB) ( 190 ) Full Text

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Navigating masculinity: a psychosocial qualitative study of transgender and non-binary individuals' experiences

Matteo Rigo,Ines Testoni,Sara Moroni,Andrea Garolla,Francesca Cilloni,Alberto Scala,Ciro De Vincenzo

DOI: 10.22514/jomh.2026.014

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Men's Mental Health: Male Vulnerabilities and Chances for Tailored Interventions)

Abstract ( 519 ) PDF (408.91 kB) ( 144 ) Full Text

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