by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Proposed That Consciousness Is the Brain’s Model of Its Own Attention By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com You know exactly where your arm is right now, even with your eyes closed. This automatic knowledge comes from what...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists
Who Is Roger Penrose? A Nobel Laureate’s Quest to Prove Consciousness Cannot Be Computed By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com On October 6, 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Roger Penrose had won half of the Nobel Prize in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Showed That Reality Is a Controlled Hallucination Your brain is not a passive receiver of information from the world. It is a prediction machine, constantly generating guesses about what is out there and updating those guesses based on sensory...
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...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 15, 2025 | Psychology
We live in a paradox. Look around you. Objectively, the world is functioning. The lights are on, the internet is working, and the grocery stores have food. Yet, subjectively, more and more of us feel like we are going insane. We feel a profound sense of alienation, as...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 22, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice
The landscape of mental healthcare is undergoing a profound transformation, moving far beyond the simple video calls that defined the initial wave of telehealth.1 Today, technology is not just a medium for delivery; it is becoming an active tool within the therapeutic...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 22, 2025 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy for Therapists, Psychology
For decades, many forms of therapy have approached neurodivergence—like Autism (ASD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—as a “disorder” to be “fixed” or “managed.” The goal was often to help the neurodivergent person...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 15, 2025 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
The Competing Elements of Human Consciousness Introduction The quest to create artificial consciousness has long captured the human imagination. From the golems of Jewish folklore to the robots of modern science fiction, we have dreamed of breathing mental life into...
