by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 6, 2026 | Philosophy for Therapists
Something is wrong, and everyone can feel it. My patients describe it in different ways. A pervasive sense that nothing means anything. A feeling that the world has become incomprehensible. The structures they were told to trust have revealed themselves as hollow. The...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Mar 6, 2026 | History of Psychotherapy
The Crisis That Created the DSM Before 1980, American psychiatry was dominated by psychoanalysis. Diagnosis was secondary, almost administrative. The clinician’s task was understanding the patient’s underlying psychological mechanisms and unique narrative....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, History of Psychotherapy, Psychology
The Dialectic of Spirit and Statistic The history of psychotherapy is often presented as a “Whig history”—a linear progression from the superstitious darkness of the past toward the illuminated scientific present. In this sanitized narrative, we move from...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Nov 8, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Evidence Based Practice in Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychology, Therapy Resources for Alabama
In 1961, Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that would fundamentally challenge our understanding of human obedience and moral authority. Participants were instructed by a man in a white coat, an apparent authority figure, to administer what they believed were...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Nov 29, 2024 | Evidence Based Practice and Research Psychology, Metamodernism and Deconstruction, Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Implications Theodore Porter’s Thinking in Psychotherapy and Mental Health Who is Theodore Porter? In his seminal work “Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life,” historian of science Theodore Porter offers a compelling...
