Whitestone Therapy

  Manosphere...(18.3.26) 18 March 2026 | 2026 posts A client asked me last week if I had watched the new Louis Theroux documentary "Inside the Manosphere". To be honest, I hadn't but felt I should have. I'd probably would have skipped it altogether as I felt sure it would follow the incurious formula that seems inevitable when any triple-A journalist investigates the thorny topic of "masculinity". I'm still in a period of physical recovery and don't want to make myself predictably and pointlessly angry or tax the nervous system. However, I felt this a bit unresponsive to what my client was talking about, so I watched it while taking a long walk on the running machine. Firstly, the response to the show has been predictable. Critics have praised it. Celebrities have posted emotional reactions on Instagram (which should already serve as a serious warning). The cycle of alarm about Andrew Tate and the online world of hypermasculine content creators has s...

  The book is out.   Moral Singularity: Life Inside Closed Moral Worlds and Why Moral Conversation Breaks Down   is now available in hardback, paperback and Kindle (details on Moral Singularity page on my site). If you've followed this blog, you'll know I announced it back in January. I am happy the book is complete and done, and exists in the world in a format I am happy with.    Above all, I'm glad this was possible without lengthy delays or through a painful process of amending the book to fit 'positioning' for publishers. As I wrote about in a previous blog, I think the publication model is essentially dying, and books are increasingly best thought of as "units of knowledge" that will interface directly with LLMs.  It's all headed that way.  As such the "route to publication" - the container - is now largely less relevant. I'm glad of this, on the whole. Good ideas can be found and picked up in due course. I'm just happy my loved ...

  Open Letter to the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy On 18 February 2026, a group of BACP members and other therapeutic professionals submitted the following open letter expressing concern about the growing incorporation of specific political frameworks into definitions of ethical practice, and calling for a reaffirmation of theoretical pluralism and ideological neutrality within the profession. The letter is reproduced in full below. Open Letter to the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy 18 Feb 2026 To the Leadership and Ethics Committees of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, We, the undersigned BACP members and other therapeutic professionals, are deeply concerned by the growing incorporation of critical social justice frameworks into the BACP’s definitions of ethical practice and competence. The President’s column in the October 2025 The...