ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on therapeutic work with men as, while men are the dominant gender in society, they are in the minority in therapy, both as clients and in some fields as therapists, and explores how social identity as a man manifests in therapy. It discusses the psychopolitics as a term that encompasses both a general reference to a psychotherapy that is informed by the social/political world, and a specific reference to the anti-psychiatry movement of the late 1960s and '70s. Relational Transactional Analysis, which, in many ways, reflects the "relational turn" in psychotherapy, emphasises intersubjectivity, and relationalit. One of the challenges offered by radical psychiatry was the reclaiming of the term, the practice of "psychiatry", translated from its Greek origins as "soul healing". The centrality of alienation to the cause of mental distress provides scope to think about a relational radical psychiatry at individual, interpersonal, institutional, and social/cultural levels.
