by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Apr 28, 2025 | Podcast Interview, 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 | Feb 24, 2025 | Color Psychology, Jungian Concepts
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 | Feb 24, 2025 | Evidence Based Practice
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 | Feb 11, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy
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 | Nov 29, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, 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 | Oct 5, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, History of Psychotherapy, Mental Health Resources in Alabama, Neuroscience and the Brain, 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...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Sep 21, 2024 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, History of Psychotherapy
Balancing Evidence and Experience: Lessons from the STAR*D Scandal The Tightrope of Objective and Subjective in Psychotherapy For decades, psychotherapy has walked a tightrope between the worlds of scientific research and clinical practice. On one side, a growing...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Dec 16, 2020 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, Neuroscience and the Brain
Key Points and Main Ideas: Shift in psychiatric practice from hour-long psychotherapy sessions to brief medication-focused appointments. Criticism of the current trend of diagnosing and prescribing medication without thorough assessment of patients’ life...
