by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 23, 2026 | Psychology
There is a small but revealing detail that most of us have already forgotten. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, using the internet required you to think like a machine. If you wanted to understand why Christianity became the dominant force in medieval Europe, you did...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 15, 2026 | Executive and Physician Burnout, Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Understanding Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity in Therapy
The Psychic Infrastructure of Power The modern boardroom is not merely a place of financial calculation; it is a ritual space where the unconscious forces of the collective psyche play out in high definition. While MBA programs teach strategy, they rarely address the...
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 25, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Murray Stein: The Architect of Individuation If Carl Jung discovered the continent of the unconscious, Murray Stein is the cartographer who drew the map so the rest of us wouldn’t get lost. A senior analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 25, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Parts Based Therapy, Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction
The Architecture of Desire: Rethinking Libido from Freud to Friston The history of depth psychology is, at its core, a history of a single argument: What fuels the human machine? For Sigmund Freud, the answer was singular, biological, and relentless. He believed the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 20, 2025 | Comparative Religion for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
I. The Architecture of Magnificent Error In the intellectual history of the human sciences, there exists a rare and distinctive category of scholarship which might be termed the “magnificent failure.” These are works of sweeping ambition, immense...
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...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 19, 2025 | Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Psychology of Fiction / Flash Fiction / Screenwriting, Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
A Review of Into the Abyss by Werner Herzog Trigger Warning: This essay discusses capital punishment, murder, violence, death, and contains descriptions of violent acts including attempted murder. The film and essay examine traumatic events and their psychological...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 4, 2025 | Alabama Local History, Christian Mysticism in Therapy, Mythology and Therapy, Symbolism and Meaning in Psychotherapy
The Sacred Species and Their Archetypal Meanings In the depths of the human psyche, trees stand as primordial witnesses to our spiritual evolution. They are the axis mundi, the world pillars that connect heaven, earth, and the underworld in virtually every...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 8, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Symbolism and Meaning in Psychotherapy
“There is a very strong and very ancient emotion that is rarely mentioned or recognized: it is the anguish we feel for the absence of idols. If the eye has no image on which to rest, if there is nothing to mediate between the mental phantasm and that...
