The Internal Civil War: Understanding and Treating the AuDHD Brain

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 3, 2026 | Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Psychology

The Internal Civil War: Understanding and Treating the AuDHD Brain A Clinical Guide to the Autism-ADHD Intersection There is a particular kind of exhaustion that defies simple explanation. It is not the fatigue of overwork, nor the weariness of too little sleep. It is...

Stephen Porges: The Neuroscientist Who Mapped Safety in the Nervous System

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology

When Stephen Porges began studying heart rate variability in newborn infants in the early 1970s, he noticed something curious. Babies whose heart rates fluctuated rhythmically with their breathing, a phenomenon called respiratory sinus arrhythmia, responded better to...

Peter Levine: The Biophysicist Who Taught Trauma to Speak Through the Body

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | 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...

The Architecture of the Self and the Anatomy of Trauma: A Consilient Analysis of Depth Psychology, Somatic Interventions, and Computational Neuroscience

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 20, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists

The Convergence of Metaphor and Mechanism The history of psychotherapy is often narrated as a fractured lineage, a series of schisms where the “scientific” present supposedly corrects the “mystical” errors of the past. For nearly a century, the...

The Psychology of Red: Passion, Power, and the Primal Self

by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 21, 2025 | Color Psychology

What Does Red Mean in a Dream? Red, the color of blood and fire, is perhaps the most primal and visceral of all the hues on the spectrum. Associated with intense emotions, vital life force, and the very essence of human survival and power, red evokes a raw,...