by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics
Unpacking Family Scripts: How Your Childhood Narratives Shape Your Present The stories we tell ourselves about our lives are powerful. They shape our sense of identity, our relationships, and our very experience of reality. And perhaps no stories are more formative...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics
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...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Jan 28, 2025 | Comparative Religion, Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Jungian Concepts
What Schools of tThought did Carl Jung Influence? When Carl Jung began developing his theories of the psyche in the early 20th century, he likely did not foresee just how far his ideas would reach. As a psychoanalyst and philosopher, Jung was primarily focused on...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Jan 15, 2025 | Anthropology and Evo Psych, Jungian Concepts
The Competing Elements of Human Consciousness Introduction The quest to create artificial consciousness has long captured the human imagination. From the golems of Jewish folklore to the robots of modern science fiction, we have dreamed of breathing mental life into...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Nov 8, 2024 | Classical Mythology, Jungian Concepts, Symbolism and Meaning
Insights from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Hindu Mythology for Psychotherapy, Creativity and Trauma Why do Depth Psychologists Use Mythology in Therapy? Mythology has long been recognized as a powerful tool for understanding the human psyche and the complexities of...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Nov 4, 2024 | Comparative Religion, Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Jungian Concepts
Who is Christopher Partridge? Professor Christopher Partridge is a leading British religious studies scholar and social scientist whose work has profoundly influenced our understanding of alternative spirituality, popular culture, and contemporary religion. As...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Nov 4, 2024 | Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Philosophy, Post Modernism, Psychology
Who is Gianni Vattimo? In the ever-shifting landscape of contemporary thought, the work of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo offers a compelling lens through which to view the challenges and opportunities facing psychotherapy today. Born in 1936, Vattimo emerged as a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Nov 4, 2024 | Metamodernism and Deconstruction
Who is Seth Abramson? As we navigate the complexities of the early 21st century, marked by rapid technological change, globalization, and a pervasive sense of existential uncertainty, the question of how to approach the healing of the human psyche has taken on a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Oct 30, 2024 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy
Who is Jürgen Habermas? Jürgen Habermas (1929-) is one of the most influential philosophers and social theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As the leading figure of the “second generation” of the Frankfurt School, Habermas has made...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Oct 26, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy
Challenging Freud and Pioneering Feminine Psychology “The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. There is no such thing as absolute normality within a complex culture. The tremendous psychological stresses and strains of present-day life fall too...
