by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 11, 2024 | Mythology and Therapy
Key Takeaways: The Suppliants & Jungian Psychology The Refugee Soul: The Danaids represent the Anima (Feeling Function) fleeing from the predatory Animus (The Egyptians), seeking sanctuary in the conscious mind (Argos). The Democratic Ego (Pelasgus): King Pelasgus...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 11, 2024 | Mythology and Therapy
Executive Summary: The Psychology of The Bacchae The Core Conflict: Euripides’ masterpiece is the ultimate study of Repression. It pits Pentheus (The Rigid Ego) against Dionysus (The Irrational Id). It demonstrates that whatever we repress eventually returns to...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 8, 2024 | Christian Mysticism in Therapy, Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
In the garden of his Bollingen Tower retreat, on the shore of Lake Zurich, stands a peculiar monument – a stone cube, some twenty inches thick, carved on three sides with cryptic inscriptions. This is the Bollingen Stone, erected by Carl Jung in 1950 to...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 7, 2024 | Depth Psychology Approaches and Techniques, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Philosophy for Therapists
Who was Socrates? Socrates, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy, was born in Athens, Greece, in 470 BCE. He lived during a time of great intellectual and cultural flourishing, known as the Golden Age of Athens. Socrates’ life and teachings...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 10, 2024 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Goddesses in Every Woman In the 1980s, feminist psychology and Jungian analysis converged in the work of Jean Shinoda Bolen. A psychiatrist and analyst, Bolen realized that the standard male-centric models of development did not fit the women she saw in her...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 11, 2021 | Dreams and the Unconscious, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
Carl Jung thought that dreams were the way that we use the past to try and conceptualize what the future will be like. When we are on the edge of a big often unavoidable change in our life we begin to dig into our unconscious mind to try to predict the future. Our...
