by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 12, 2024 | Executive and Physician Burnout, Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools
How to fix Physician Burnout We Have a Clinician who Treats Physician Burnout at Taproot Therapy Collective Check Him out Here Physician burnout is a pervasive and pressing issue that threatens the well-being of healthcare professionals and the quality of patient care...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 12, 2024 | Recovering from Abuse, Self Help and Personal Development, Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools
Key Takeaways: Compassion Fatigue & Physician Burnout Differential Diagnosis: Distinguishes between Burnout (bureaucratic exhaustion), Compassion Fatigue (emotional depletion from empathy), and Moral Injury (violation of ethical values). Neurobiology: Explains how...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 12, 2024 | Executive and Physician Burnout, Recovering from Abuse, Self Help and Personal Development, Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools
Key Takeaways: Treating Physician Burnout The “Hidden” Diagnosis: Distinguishes between clinical burnout, depression, and Moral Injury—the distress caused by working within a broken system. The “Super-Helper” Complex: Explores the personality...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 9, 2024 | Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools, Understanding Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity in Therapy
Executive Summary: The Psychology of the Meme The Clinical Reality: Memes are not just “internet junk”; they are sophisticated vehicles for emotional regulation. For the digital generation, sharing a meme is a bid for connection—a way to say, “I am...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 21, 2024 | Christian Mysticism in Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Buildings and Architecture, Psychology of Modernism Post Modernism and the Meta Modern, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Philosopher of the Body and the Flesh of the World Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) stands as a pivotal figure in 20th-century thought, a French phenomenologist who dared to challenge the ancient dualism separating the mind from the body....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 16, 2024 | Discover + Heal + Grow: Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Episodes, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
Key Points: Psychotherapy is facing an identity and purpose crisis in the era of market-driven healthcare, as depth, nuance, and the therapeutic relationship are being displaced by cost containment, standardization, and mass-reproducibility. This crisis stems from a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 2, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers
Healing the Modern Soul Part 3: Suffering Without Screaming Healing the Modern Soul Series: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Appendix The Scream by Edvard Munch In the first part of this series, we explored the concept of the modern world as a simulacrum—a copy without an...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 4, 2023 | Brainspotting in Alabama: Revolutionary Trauma Therapy for Deep Healing, Discover + Heal + Grow: Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Episodes, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
In this episode, Joel Blackstock interviews Carolyn Robistow, a life coach and brain spotting practitioner who works with clients from her boat. Carolyn talks about keeping a captain’s log, dealing with potential pirate threats, and her involvement in the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 11, 2023 | Discover + Heal + Grow: Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Episodes, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
How Therapists can Use the Pupil to Heal Trauma One of the reasons that I left EMDR and started to pursue brainspotting as the primary brain based medicine that I use as a provider was because of pupil dilation. Years ago when I was just starting out as a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 1, 2023 | Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Trauma Treatment in Alabama
The Black Box of the Mind: From Dopamine to Sensory Gating For decades, psychiatry operated under the “Dopamine Hypothesis”—the idea that mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, was simply a chemical imbalance of dopamine. We treated the brain like a...
