There is something inside of men that we have never been able to put into words. It is what makes a man work harder, fight harder, and build bigger. It is what he feels on the pitch when everything gets sharper, and his body knows exactly what to do. There is a reason behind every great act of ambition, every empire built, and every mountain climbed: it was there.
When it goes wrong, it is also behind some of the worst things that happen to men.
Dr Philippe Jacquet has worked with men at this exact crossroads for more than 25 years and created Men Inner Search practice, a specialised psychotherapy and counselling practice for men in central London and online. These men are very successful on the outside but have a private, often nameless inner struggle. What he has seen in decades of clinical work is that most of what men go through is based on something basic and mostly unexplored. He refers to it as Kronos energy.
The Myth That Explains What Psychology Often Misses
Kronos is the Titan of extremes in Greek mythology. He killed his own father, ruled the world with an iron fist, and then, terrified of losing that power, ate his own children. The myth says something important about this energy: its power and its danger are two sides of the same coin. Kronos energy is basic, aggressive, and focused on being in charge and controlling things. In its most powerful form, it is what makes civilisations grow. At its worst, it eats everything it was supposed to protect, even the man himself.
Men are rarely taught to understand this energy, and they are almost never taught to master it.
How Kronos Energy Works
When a man channels Kronos energy well, he seems ambitious but not cruel. Being competitive without being mean. Drive that serves a purpose beyond the self. You can see it in the athlete who trains hard and then goes home to be with his family. In the executive who leads with real authority and care. In the man who can stand his ground without having to kill the person in front of him.
These men are not less aggressive; in fact, they are more so in the truest sense. They've learned how to control the force instead of letting it control them. They have done the inner work, even if they didn't mean to.
But most men never get that kind of education. No one gives the energy a name. Nobody shows them how to use it. And so, it finds its own ways to go.
Sometimes it turns into control over work, other people, and every aspect of life that is set up to avoid feeling powerless. The high-achieving man who can't delegate, can't take a break, and can't stand not knowing what will happen next. Sometimes rage comes out of nowhere, is too much, and leaves relationships broken and the man himself ashamed and confused. Sometimes it turns completely inward, with harsh self-criticism, constant internal pressure, and the feeling that nothing he does is ever good enough. The Titan, who can't find a worthy opponent outside, starts to eat himself.
This is where men's mental health and Kronos energy come together. Not in weakness. Not because there isn't any strength. But in raw, unmastered power that has no good place to go.
The Quiet About Male Pain
Men are not taught to be honest about this. Society tells two stories: the successful man who has power over everything and the dangerous man who loses control. There isn't much cultural language for the man in the middle, the one who has this huge primal force and is trying to figure out what to do with it, and who suffers in silence when he gets it wrong.
And he is in pain. Men are almost three times more likely than women to kill themselves. They are more likely to drink too much, stay alone, and keep going long after their body and mind have clearly told them that something needs to change. Not because men are broken. But the energy they are carrying was never properly named or met.
Dr. Jacquet has created a depth-psychological framework at Men Inner Search to help men understand these dynamics. He used Analytical Psychology and more than 20 years of clinical observation to figure out what happens when Kronos energy is not controlled and, more importantly, what can happen when a man starts to work with it on purpose.
Not Suppression, Mastery
It's not about holding back Kronos energy to master it. It's not about being less, softer, or quieter. It's about building up your inner strength so you can handle something strong without it breaking you. To know when to let it go and when to hold it back. To point it toward life instead of against it.
That's what the work at Men Inner Search is really all about. Not taking away a man's strength, but giving him a real, adult relationship with it. The sessions are the same whether they are in person in Fitzrovia, central London, or online: they are direct, focused on depth, and free of all the fluff that wastes a driven man's time.
The men who come to Men Inner Search are not weak. They are almost always carrying a lot of power. It's never been a question of whether the energy is there. It always is. The question is whether a man is in charge of it or if it is quietly in charge of him.
In the end, Kronos was overthrown, not because he was weak, but because his son had grown into his own power. The myth has always known what we are just starting to say out loud: the energy itself is not the problem. Who is in charge of it is what matters.
Dr Philippe Jacquet is a psychotherapist, analytical psychologist, and the founder of Men Inner Search, a specialised practice that offers counselling, psychotherapy, and executive coaching for men in Fitzrovia, central London, and online. His doctoral research was about using depth psychology to study men's inner lives.