by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 5, 2026 | Psychology, Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
In the summer of 2005, a virtual plague swept through the digital kingdom of Azeroth. Players logged into World of Warcraft to find the streets of major cities carpeted with skeletons. A bug had allowed a deadly in-game disease to escape its intended boundaries, and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 5, 2026 | Psychology, Psychology Book Reviews and Non Fiction, Therapeutic Approaches and Techniques for Therapists
When most people hear the word “hypnosis,” they picture a pocket watch swinging back and forth, a stage performer making volunteers cluck like chickens, or perhaps a sinister figure commanding their subject to do something against their will. These images,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 31, 2025 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Psychology of Politics, Psychology Topics and Articles
A deep exploration of the questions that keep neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, and psychologists awake at night—and why the answers remain tantalizingly out of reach. The Known Unknowns of Human Experience We live in an age of unprecedented scientific...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology
The Nobel Laureate Who Applied Darwin’s Theory to the Brain “The brain is wider than the sky.” Emily Dickinson’s words were a favorite of Gerald Edelman, the American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate who spent decades developing a theory of how consciousness emerges...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Symbolism and Meaning in Psychotherapy
The Scientist Who Proposed That Consciousness Is the Brain’s Electromagnetic Field When billions of neurons fire in your brain, they generate not only electrical signals traveling along neural pathways but also electromagnetic waves radiating outward into the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Proposed That Consciousness Is the Brain’s Model of Its Own Attention By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com You know exactly where your arm is right now, even with your eyes closed. This automatic knowledge comes from what...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Asks How the Brain Knows What Is Real Imagine you are at a magic show. The performer vanishes before your eyes. You know, rationally, that the person is hiding somewhere. Yet no matter how much you reason, you cannot shake the visual impression...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Gave Consciousness a Mathematical Formula By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com Why Understanding the Integration of Experience Matters for Therapy Before we explore the revolutionary work of Giulio Tononi, we need to understand why...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists
Who Is Roger Penrose? A Nobel Laureate’s Quest to Prove Consciousness Cannot Be Computed By The Clinical Team at GetTherapyBirmingham.com On October 6, 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Roger Penrose had won half of the Nobel Prize in...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 29, 2025 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Philosophy for Therapists
The Neuroscientist Who Showed That Reality Is a Controlled Hallucination Your brain is not a passive receiver of information from the world. It is a prediction machine, constantly generating guesses about what is out there and updating those guesses based on sensory...
