by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 1, 2025 | Psychology, Psychology Topics and Articles
Terror Management Theory (TMT) offers a profound framework for understanding the human psyche’s response to existential threats and mortality awareness. This paper explores how TMT illuminates the mechanisms of trauma creation and provides insights into...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Recovering from Abuse
“Faustus: Stay, Mephistophilis, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistophilis: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason why he tempts us thus? Mephistophilis: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Self Help and Personal Development
When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine has studied her face and its defects remorselessly, and the pain they thought might, as a token of their earnestness, release...