Episode 45, featuring Dr. Andrew Hartz

About this episode

Dr. Andrew Hartz discusses the masculinity crisis and socio-political bias in mental health care.

Andrew Hartz is the Founder, President, and Executive Director of the Open Therapy Institute, or OTI, whose mission, quoting from its website, is “to address socio-political bias in mental health care. ” Andrew is also a practicing clinical psychologist and was formerly a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Long Island University, where he completed his own Ph.D. He did a clinical internship at Columbia University Medical Center, and he’s written about the problem of politics in mental health for the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, the Federalist, The Free Press, Heterodox Academy, the New York Post, the New York Times, and Quillette. If you’re still not impressed, he’s even been a guest on Dr. Phil, who described him as “a beacon of hope!” All that, and now UnMuted. We discuss the “masculinity crisis” that was the topic of Andrew’s talk, along with Ben Appel and Rob Henderson, at an event I enjoyed last month. Others are talking about it too, including Bill Maher with Scott Galloway last Friday on Real Time . Also: artificial barriers to trust between men and women; the discomfiting subversion of social signifiers or “idioms”; the downsides of Sharia law…

People in this episode

Host: Jenny Poyer Ackerman

Guest: Andrew Hartz

Topics covered

• masculinity crisis
• mental health
• socio-political bias
• trust between men and women
• therapy
• self-censorship

Keywords

• mental health
• masculinity crisis
• therapy
• socio-political bias
• trust
• self-censorship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Open Therapy Institute, Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Federalist, The Free Press, Heterodox Academy, New York Post, New York Times, Quillette

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