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 26, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
If James Hillman championed the imagination and Murray Stein mapped the structure of the self, Marion Woodman brought the soul down from the clouds and rooted it firmly in the earth of the body. A Canadian Jungian analyst and a visionary in the field of somatic...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 25, 2025 | History of Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Murray Stein: The Architect of Individuation If Carl Jung discovered the continent of the unconscious, Murray Stein is the cartographer who drew the map so the rest of us wouldn’t get lost. A senior analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 10, 2025 | Psychology of Media and Culture
The Ontological Crisis of the Moving Image There is a moment in Paddy Chayefsky’s Network where Howard Beale, the mad prophet of the airwaves, screams about the dehumanization of experience itself. Written in 1976, Chayefsky was already seeing what we have only...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 6, 2025 | Alabama Local History, Legal Updates for Therapists and Psyychologists, Psychology of Artists, Poets, and Writers, Psychology of History, Psychology of Media and Culture, Psychology Topics and Articles, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Authors Note: I became interested in George B. Ward and his unseen influence and place in history while working on a screenplay about his life. I already wrote this much shorter article on the life of George B. Ward, however I wanted to make my research notes for the...
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...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Apr 22, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy
Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 Jungian Analysis and the Path to Wholeness Read More on Jung here: Carl Jung’s Major Influences Jungian Analysis Archetypes Jung’s Method Jungian Thought Key Ideas and Main Points: Jung’s concept of individuation as a...
