When Empathy Becomes an Orthodoxy in Gender Identity Discussions
The recent Beyond Gender podcast discussion with Jasmin Faulk, Stella O’Malley, and Bret Alderman raises an important question about how empathy, and its corollary protection, […]
Distraction Therapy – Constellations of Meaning, Youth, and the Unlived Psyche with Dr Bret Alderman
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-04-06-Mixdown.mp3There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Rob Watson and Dr Bret […]
The Vibe Shift and the Art of Leaving Well
In This Isn’t Working, host Tanya de Grunwald speaks with Brendan O’Neill about whether employers have “missed the vibe shift”. The immediate setting is workplace […]
The Psychic Ecology of Media, Identity, and Sensemaking
Contemporary discussions about identity formation often focus on the interaction between individuals and media systems. The recent discussion in the Beyond Gender podcast, with Soren […]
The BBC, State Power, and the Right to Step Away
There is a question that hovers over every discussion of BBC reform, but which is too often brushed aside before it has been properly considered. […]
This Isn’t Working – The Lost Mythos
The recent episode of This Isn’t Working, featuring HR commentator Tanya de Grunwald in conversation with clinical psychologist Jaco van Zyl, circles an issue that […]
Distraction Therapy – January Unfolding with Matthew Colthup
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-01-15-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that […]
The Feminisation of Institutions and the Lost Language of the Symbolic Feminine
The recent Triggernometry conversation with Helen Andrews centres on a provocative but important claim: that many of the cultural pathologies now gathered under the label […]
Breaking the Spell of Convention – Gnostic and Hermetic Strategies for Awakening, and Jung’s Reading of the “Aion”
When people speak about “breaking free of social convention”, they often mean a change of attitude, a refusal of conformity, or a personal re-imagination of […]
The Psychologist as Drama Critic – Consciousness, Role, and the Suspension of Disbelief
One way of understanding the work of the psychologist is to see them not primarily as a technician of symptoms or a manager of behaviours, […]