John M. Robertson

John M. Robertson is a psychologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is now retired (emeritus) from Kansas State University, where he was a Senior Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of Research at University Counseling Services; a lecturer in Clinical Psychology for the Department of Psychology; and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology. He has also lectured for the Department of Psychology and Research in Education at the University of Kansas. Dr. Robertson is a past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, a division of the American Psychological Association. He has authored more than 30 articles and book chapters on the psychological concerns of men, including a dozen original research articles published in refereed psychology journals. He has written a book for psychotherapists about men who are authoritarian: overbearing, coercive, manipulative, entitled, and judgmental (Tough Guys and True Believers, published by Routledge). Dr. Robertson also has conducted a psychotherapy private practice for men since 1991.

Men and Loneliness

For many years, my clinical psychology practice served only men, sometimes with a woman in their lives. One glaring vulnerability often appeared in my conversations with older men. Men at midlife and beyond are often profoundly lonely. Isolated. Here is a typical conversation while getting acquainted with a man in my office: Me: Can you … Men and Loneliness

Seventy!

Having just completed my 70th year on this planet, I find myself in a reflective mood. What has mattered the most all these years? Can I offer anything useful to an 18-year-old about what lies ahead? Not that I’ve been asked, of course. But then, I don’t recall asking 70+ year-olds to answer that question … Seventy!