by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 6, 2026 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy for Therapists, Psychology of Modernism Post Modernism and the Meta Modern
The Tectonics of the Self The history of the United States is typically recounted as a sequence of political events, economic shifts, and military conflicts. However, running beneath the surface of constitutional conventions, industrial revolutions, and digital...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The history of depth psychology is often told as a story of great men. We speak of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung as the titans who mapped the unconscious mind. Yet the territory of the soul was not explored by these men alone. Standing in the penumbra of Carl Jung’s...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 16, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Genesis of American Psychology The intellectual history of the West is often charted by its great systematizers, those who build cathedrals of thought in which every stone is placed with geometric precision. William James was not such a builder. He was an explorer...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 7, 2025 | Philosophy for Therapists
A Medieval Voice Speaking to Modern Minds In the dimly lit scriptoriums of fourteenth-century England, a Franciscan friar bent over his manuscripts, crafting arguments that would reverberate through centuries of human thought. William of Ockham could not have known...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Oct 1, 2024 | Executive and Physician Burnout, History of Psychotherapy, Psychology of History
How did Psychotherapy Change Over Time? Timeline of Psychotherapy Timeline 1890s: The birth of psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud 1900s-1910s: Emergence of competing schools (Adler’s Individual Psychology, Jung’s Analytical Psychology) Influence of Bleuler...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Apr 6, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Who Was William James? “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James William James (1842-1910) is widely regarded as the father of American psychology and one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th and early...
