Beyond Gender and the Psychology of Ideological Certainty
The most valuable question raised by Stella O’Malley’s conversation with Ian Cox on Beyond Gender concerns what happens when psychotherapy becomes an instrument of collective […]
Articles by Rob Watson
Distraction Therapy – Back to School Japan Style
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Distraction-Therapy-Show-002-2026-09-02-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy shifts the point of view to Japan. The theme remains Back to School, but the mood becomes brighter, faster and […]
Distraction Therapy – Back to School
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-09-02-Mixdown.mp3September brings a subtle change of rhythm. The light shifts, the air sharpens and routes which had loosened during summer begin to gather into patterns […]
Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls – Feeling, Thinking and the Divided Psyche
I have recently finished listening to Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls on Audible, largely while walking. This seems, in retrospect, to have […]
Galileo and the Making of a Mythical Hero
I recently posted on X about the Catholic Church’s role in the Galileo affair. Michal Paszkiewicz replied, helpfully pointing out that the history was more […]
Distraction Therapy – The Next Movement
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Distraction-Therapy-Show-002-2026-08-25-Mixdown.mp3Some journeys begin with a clear destination. Others begin with a face glimpsed through motion, a remembered voice, or the quiet sense that it is […]
Distraction Therapy – Use the Light While It’s Here
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-08-25-Mixdown.mp3Summer asks something simple of us: don’t waste the light. That doesn’t mean booking a grand trip, filling every weekend or forcing ourselves to have fun. […]
When Kindness Becomes a Creed – Gender-Identity Policy, Virtue Signalling and Institutional Authority
Kindness begins with an encounter between imperfect people. It requires attentiveness to another person’s vulnerability, but also some awareness of one’s own partial understanding, mixed […]
Making Things Work – Renewal, Myth, and the Limits of Debate in a Fragmented Britain
I went into the Triggernometry conversation with Jimmy Carr expecting to be mildly irritated, or at best indifferent. I have never been a fan of […]
Beyond Gender, Marcus Evans, and the Limits of a Purely Individual Myth
In a recent episode of the Beyond Gender podcast, psychoanalyst and former Tavistock governor Marcus Evans describes the crisis in youth gender medicine as “the […]