by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Sándor Ferenczi: The Mother of Psychoanalysis and the Architect of Trauma Therapy While Sigmund Freud is the undisputed father of psychoanalysis, there is a quieter and more tender voice that was silenced for decades but has recently emerged as the true architect of...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
In 1969, a graduate student named Nancy arrived at Peter Levine’s office suffering from panic attacks so severe they left her incapacitated, attacks she could not explain and for which no medical cause could be found. Levine, then in his late twenties and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The body knows things the mind has not yet learned. This insight, articulated by Carl Jung nearly a century ago through his concepts of the psychoid unconscious and somatic intuition, found its empirical validation in the laboratories of a Portuguese neuroscientist...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The history of depth psychology is often told as a story of great men. We speak of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung as the titans who mapped the unconscious mind. Yet the territory of the soul was not explored by these men alone. Standing in the penumbra of Carl Jung’s...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
While the Mother Wound is often associated with the ability to connect and feel nourished, the Father Wound is deeply tied to our ability to trust and feel safe in our vulnerability. The father is the first “other” the child encounters—the first figure...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
The Absent King: How the Father Wound Creates a Crisis of Authority In the architecture of the human psyche, the Father Archetype is the pillar of structure, law, and authority. In its healthy form, the Father provides the “container” for the soul’s...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
How the Mother Wound Sabotages Relationships: 10 Ways We Re-Enact the Past The Mother Wound is a primal injury that occurs when the mother (or primary caregiver) is unable to provide the attunement, mirroring, and emotional safety a child needs to develop a secure...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
In the lexicon of Depth Psychology, few concepts are as heavy or as misunderstood as the “Mother Wound.” It is often dismissed as a grievance against one’s actual mother—a list of complaints about her being too critical, too distant, or too intrusive. But...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Somatic Experiencing In Alabama
yo There is a specific, heavy feeling that many therapy clients know intimately but struggle to name. It is not quite sadness, and it is not quite fear. It is a sense of fundamental wrongness—a deep, sinking belief that “I am not just making mistakes; I am a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Dreams and the Unconscious, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Symbolism and Meaning in Psychotherapy
The way madness manifests itself tells us something profound about the age we live in. When James Tilly Matthews sat in the damp cells of Bethlem Hospital in 1810, sketching detailed diagrams of what he called the Air Loom, he was not merely documenting a personal...
