Rehabilitating Incels: A Path Forward?

These findings highlight specific pathways that lead men to incel communities and why they join them, and potential points for intervention that center pressures for boys and men to conform. This chapter focuses on treatment approaches for incel clients and the approaches a therapist might take in helping them. First, the importance of active listening is addressed. We interviewed 21 people who identified as former incels about their experiences joining and leaving incel groups, with the goal of understanding how men find their way into these groups, and how resources might be adapted to prevent young men from becoming incels.