Protectors, Promoters, and the Psychology of Social Balance
The Beyond Gender discussion with Dr Craig Wiener offers a useful distinction between two broad ways of helping people: protecting them and promoting them. Protection […]
Beyond Ideology – Idealisation, Empathy, and the Collective Psyche in the Digital Age
The recent Beyond Gender conversation with Gurwinder Bhogal is ostensibly about social media, attention, addiction, and political contagion. Yet beneath the immediate discussion lies a […]
Feeling Is Not Just Emotion – Jung, Popular Culture, and the Drama of Human Valuation
What do we usually mean when we say that someone is “a feeling person”? In ordinary speech, we often mean that they are emotionally expressive, […]
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 […]