by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Sep 30, 2024 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Anthropology and Evo Psych, Neuroscience and the Brain, Therapy Resources for Alabama, Trauma Treatment in Alabama
An In-Depth Exploration of What Brainspotting Does in the Brain Brainspotting is a relatively new psychotherapy approach that combines elements of psychodynamic, somatic, and mindfulness-based therapies to facilitate deep emotional healing and trauma resolution [1]....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Sep 4, 2024 | Psychology of Design and Architecture
Who was Paul Maclean? Paul D. MacLean (1913-2007) was an American physician and neuroscientist who made significant contributions to the study of brain evolution and behavior. He is best known for his triune brain theory, which proposed that the human brain is...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Sep 4, 2024 | Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Who is Antonio Damasio? Antonio Damasio is a pioneering neuroscientist, best-selling author, and professor of psychology, philosophy, and neurology at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Brain and Creativity Institute. His groundbreaking work...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Oct 11, 2023 | Neuroscience and the Brain, Trauma Treatment in Alabama, Trauma, Depth Psychology, and Social Work
How Therapists can Use the Pupil to Heal Trauma One of the reasons that I left EMDR and started to pursue brainspotting as the primary brain based medicine that I use as a provider was because of pupil dilation. Years ago when I was just starting out as a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP | Jun 24, 2023 | Neuroscience and the Brain, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
Before we begin our discussion of synesthesia consider this passage from The Peregrine. One of my favorite books. It is a bird watching journal of a naturalist but it is beautifully in its scope and transcendental description: “The first bird I searched for was...
