by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 8, 2025 | Alabama Local History, Birmingham
Trauma, Memory, and the Spectral Geography of a Wounded Land The Land That Refuses to Forget Alabama is haunted. This is not a metaphor, or rather, it is not only a metaphor. Drive the back roads of the Black Belt at dusk and you will pass antebellum mansions where...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Sep 26, 2024 | Psychology of Fiction / Flash Fiction / Screenwriting
This was a flash fiction story that I wrote more than a decade a go when I was first getting into Jungian Psycholgy . This was part of a set of flash fiction that juxtaposed the way the psyche deals with conflicct between the inner and outer worlds with suppernatural...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 30, 2024 | Trauma Treatment in Alabama
The Dark Mirror of the Soul: Exploring Southern Gothic through a Jungian Lens In the humid, kudzu-draped landscapes of the American South, a literary tradition emerged that would plumb the depths of the human psyche like few others. Southern Gothic literature, with...
