by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
For over forty years in private practice, Laurence Heller, PhD, observed a pattern that traditional trauma therapy failed to address. Clients who had experienced early childhood trauma—neglect, abuse, emotional unavailability, or chaotic caregiving—didn’t just...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 27, 2025 | Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
When a Dutch child grows up during Nazi occupation watching his father return from a work camp, watching hunger hollow out his neighbors, watching liberation armies arrive too late for too many, trauma stops being an abstract concept. It becomes the air you breathe,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 27, 2025 | Somatic Experiencing In Alabama, Trauma Treatment in Alabama
In the early 1970s, while working as a technician and yoga instructor at a short-term psychiatric hospital, a young Pat Ogden noticed something her clinical training had not prepared her to see. Her patients exhibited a profound disconnection from their bodies,...
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 | 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...
