Incels: Inferences on Etiology & Therapeutic Treatment

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cityu.schoolSchool of Health and Social Sciences
cityu.siteVancouver, BC
cityu.site.countryCanada
dc.contributor.authorLevine, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-26T23:06:39Z
dc.date.available2021-05-26T23:06:39Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the emerging phenomenon of ‘incel'—or ‘involuntary celibate'—online subculture from a therapeutic perspective. Also known as ‘blackpill' ideology, this subculture has evolved in recent years into a growing hotbed of radical apathy, nihilism, self-loathing, and—often—misogyny and antisocial bitterness, for a minimum of tens of thousands of romantically unsuccessful young males. At its most extreme, incel subculture has been implicated in a number of mass murder attempts in both North America and western Europe over the past decade. Currently, most of the information on incels and blackpill ideology that circulates in the public sphere is speculative and journalistic in nature. This entails distortions and conflations that obscure, rather than clarify, the true nature and scale of this emerging societal malaise. This paper, in contrast, aims to take as empirically-informed, and evidence-based an approach as possible to, one, introducing the topic to the mental health community, two, surveying the therapeutically-relevant extant literature, and finally, three, proposing a best-practice-based approach to conducting well-informed therapy with men and boys under the sway of blackpill thought.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/1282
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.institutionCity University of Seattle (CityU)
dc.subjectBecky
dc.subjectblackpill
dc.subjectbluepill
dc.subjectChad
dc.subjectforum
dc.subjecthypergamy
dc.subjectincel
dc.subjectinceldom
dc.subjectlookism
dc.subjectmanosphere
dc.subjectMRA
dc.subjectreddit
dc.subjectredpill
dc.subjectsociosexual
dc.subjectStacy
dc.subject4chan
dc.titleIncels: Inferences on Etiology & Therapeutic Treatment
dc.typeCapstone
thesis.degree.disciplineCounseling
thesis.degree.grantorCity University of Seattle (CityU)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Counselling
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