by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 30, 2025 | Models of Psychotherapy, Psychology Topics and Articles, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The discipline advanced not through consensus, but through violent collisions of opposing worldviews—tectonic shifts where the very definitions of “mind,” “cure,” and “human nature” were contested with ideological fervor and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology Topics and Articles
A Genealogical History of How External Forces Transformed the Therapy Patient—and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever The history of psychotherapy is often told as a history of “great men”—Freud, Jung, Rogers, Beck—and their competing theories of mind....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 17, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The history of psychotherapy moves not in a straight line but in a spiral picking up insights from unexpected sources and transforming them into healing practices. The behavioral tradition in psychology represents one of the most influential and practically...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 17, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Edward Thorndike: The Architect of Learning Through Consequences While Ivan Pavlov was measuring salivary secretions in St. Petersburg, an American psychologist was watching cats struggle to escape from puzzle boxes in a basement laboratory, and in doing so laying the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 7, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
A Philosopher-King Writing to Himself in the Dark In the final decade of his life, along the frozen banks of the Danube River, surrounded by the chaos of military campaigns against Germanic tribes, the most powerful man in the ancient world sat alone in his tent and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 7, 2025 | Christian Mysticism in Therapy, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy for Therapists, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers
The Ancient Roots of Inner Exploration When contemporary therapists speak of the unconscious, the divided self, or the healing power of narrative confession, they participate in a tradition far older than Freud or Jung. Sixteen centuries before the birth of...
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 | Aug 22, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy
Dedication : The late author of Freud: The Making of an Illusion, Dr. Fredrick Crews was a pen pal of mine. He was an eternally interesting and a sardonic rapier sharp wit, with a shrewd eye for empirical hygiene but also a clear head and fascinating perspective up to...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 20, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Who was Stanley Milgram? Stanley Milgram stands as one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of social psychology. His groundbreaking research on obedience to authority not only revolutionized our understanding of human behavior but also...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Apr 22, 2024 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers
How has Jungian philosophy changed overtime? Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 Read More on Jung here: Carl Jung’s Major Influences Jungian Analysis Archetypes Jung’s Method Jungian Thought The origins of Jungian thought In the early 20th century, Swiss...
