Prince William and mental health.

 Prince William, talking to BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks said “we need more male role models”. He was talking in a panel discussion about the issue of - male suicide. As someone who founded the first male consciousness raising group in the UK in mid 1970’s - I endorse this idea. In addition I worked as an adult psychoanalyst for many years and had many male patients. A common theme was the unconscious anxiety and fear about expressing emotions as this - might be interpreted as weakness. Today that is manifest in the virulent misogyny of Andrew Tait and his brother. The current crisis in the wake of the Epstein files is a further example of the depth of the international abuse of women in general and under age girls in particular. There is a serious crisis today - in the way in which men and women relate to each other. Too much time in the unreal world of the internet and - swiping right is creating a profound malaise in the way in which we relate to each other. Only exasperating the feeling of alienation and anomie.