Whitestone Therapy

  Moral Singularity... (14.1.26) Happy New Year to all. I’m writing a post here to announce an upcoming book I’ve written. If not here, where? As anyone who reads this blog knows, I write candidly and openly. And as anyone who has had therapy with me knows, it’s the voice I tend to use  everywhere — with supervisees, colleagues, and clients alike: sometimes passionate, often tentative, a stubborn git, but open to being corrected and influenced by lived experience. So I should say upfront that the book does not sound much like this blog. That’s deliberate. Over the last months, I’ve written quite a lot here and elsewhere about the encroachment of activism into the therapy space — sometimes directly. I’ve tried over many years to stay open-minded, even when genuinely surprised or dismayed by the direction of travel within a profession I care deeply about. Alongside this, I’ve become increasingly interested in what happens to therapy (and other spaces) when moral certainty, insti...