by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 6, 2026 | Philosophy for Therapists
Something is wrong, and everyone can feel it. My patients describe it in different ways. A pervasive sense that nothing means anything. A feeling that the world has become incomprehensible. The structures they were told to trust have revealed themselves as hollow. The...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 1, 2026 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice, Psychology of Politics, Psychology Topics and Articles
On the hidden physics governing digital reality, the economics of visibility, and why a psychotherapy blog in Birmingham had to learn the language of machines to fund human healing. There is a moment in Adam Curtis’s documentary HyperNormalisation when he...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, History of Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction
The Dialectic of Spirit and Statistic The history of psychotherapy is often presented as a “Whig history”—a linear progression from the superstitious darkness of the past toward the illuminated scientific present. In this sanitized narrative, we move from...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 23, 2025 | Alabama Local History, Cults and High Control Group Psychology
The worn pages crackle under trembling fingers. Found tucked between dusty volumes in a government surplus sale box, the document bears no official seal, no classification stamps: just densely typed pages speaking of economic shock testing, biological warfare through...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Apr 1, 2024 | Discover + Heal + Grow: Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Episodes, Psychology of Film and TV
Who or What is Adam Curtis? Journalist or Artist? Adam Curtis is a renowned British documentary filmmaker. His films, which often resemble thesis-less art films, delve deep into complex societal, political, and historical issues. Despite the artistic nature of his...
