by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 9, 2025 | Brainspotting in Alabama: Revolutionary Trauma Therapy for Deep Healing, Executive and Physician Burnout, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology Topics and Articles, Recovering from Abuse, Somatic Experiencing In Alabama
The Limitations of Current Trauma Diagnosis Leading trauma experts Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk have long argued that the DSM-5’s approach to trauma diagnosis fails to capture the complexity of how trauma manifests in different memory systems and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 2, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy
How CBT Killed the Soul of Psychotherapy: The Rosenhan Experiment: A Prophecy Fulfilled In 1973, a psychiatric hospital received an unusual visitor. A man walked up to admissions and said simply, “I hear voices.” When the psychiatrist asked what they said,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 5, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become the dominant paradigm in psychology over the past few decades, shaping everything from research funding priorities to clinical training curricula to third-party reimbursement policies. On the surface, EBP seems unassailable...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 1, 2025 | Brainspotting in Alabama: Revolutionary Trauma Therapy for Deep Healing, Color Psychology, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Psychology
Purple Hat Therapy and the Evolution of Alternative: Psychotherapies From Energy Meridians to Polyvagal Stimulation Purple hat therapy, a novel approach claiming to heal through the power of colored headwear, has recently gained attention in the alternative therapy...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Apr 28, 2025 | Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Psychology of Politics
Matt Hongoltz-Hetling on The Ghost Lab: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Supernatural Welcome back to the Taproot Therapy Collective podcast! In this episode, we sit down with Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and George Polk Award winner, to discuss his...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 24, 2025 | Color Psychology, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become the dominant paradigm in healthcare and mental health, promising to ground clinical decision-making in rigorous scientific evidence. Proponents argue that by privileging data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 24, 2025 | Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Metamodernism and Deconstruction
For much of the 20th century, the dominant paradigm in psychology was behaviorism, which focused on observable behavior and sought to understand the mind through the lens of stimulus-response conditioning. This approach gave rise to cognitive-behavioral therapy...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 11, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Recovering from Abuse
Why Are There So Many Modalities of Psychotherapy? The history of psychotherapy is a tumultuous one, marked by heated debates, acrimonious splits, and competing claims to truth. From its origins in Freudian psychoanalysis to the present-day landscape of integrative...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Nov 29, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Implications Theodore Porter’s Thinking in Psychotherapy and Mental Health Who is Theodore Porter? In his seminal work “Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life,” historian of science Theodore Porter offers a compelling...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 5, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, History of Psychotherapy, Mental Health and Psychotherapy Resources in Alabama, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Ego, Ideology, and the Battle for the Soul of the Profession From the outside, psychotherapy often appears to be a staid and sober enterprise – a science of the mind dedicated to the rational amelioration of human suffering. But a closer examination of the...
