Within this context, it can be predicted that many male survivors may be vulnerable to power struggles when therapy shifts from addressing tasks or solutions and seeks to focus on process-oriented activities. Many men learn to suppress their emotions and believe that dealing with feelings reflects a last-ditch effort to address a particular situation. Frequently, men acknowledge their feelings only when they perceive that things have gotten really bad. Consequently, males are vulnerable to psychosomatic disorders that actually reflect the physiological display of repressed feelings. Male survivors will need to overcome injunctions that inhibit their expression of feelings in order to allow them to incorporate emotions into their belief system.
Many men accept the cultural norm that males lack the biological capacity to deal with emotion.