Blue Line Psychological Services, PLLC

08/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Coghlan as he heads to APA 2025 and begins his service as incoming Section Officer in the position of Secretary/Treasurer for the Police and Public Safety Section, Division 18 Psychologists in Public Service, American Psychological Association

Congratulations to all of the newly-elected, incoming Division and Section Officers as they head to APA 2025 in Denver to take on their elected positions.

Members of this section work with law enforcement, fire departments, nuclear regulatory agencies, emergency medical services and other public safety entities. They are involved in the selection of employees, fitness for duty evaluations, critical incident stress debriefing, management of mental heal...

08/01/2025

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06/22/2025

Starting out as a mid 19th-century military reference, the “Thin Red Line” was revised by Anderson in his 1911 poem “The Thin Blue Line”. Not originally a symbol of law enforcement, it represented the role that the American soldier plays in society. In the mid 20th-century Law enforcement culture later adopted the Thin Blue Line to symbolize the line held between order and chaos.

Today, in tribute to American military service personnel, Anderson’s “The Thin Blue Line” is posted.

God bless America.

06/06/2025

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Riddle me this? Q. What do you get when you take Imposter Syndrome, but replace the self-doubt, insecurity, modesty, distress, humility, success-as-ego-dystonic experience, and unassuming nature with unchecked narcissism, grandiosity, over-confidence, irrational pride, lack of shame, misleading brav

06/01/2025

What is your Modern Mythology?

What story are you living? What mythology do you play out in your life? You are living a script. Know the script, become it’s author.

You will never stop repetition until you recognize the myth.

Our lives are often replayed scripts of primordial narratives, repetition of timeless and innate experiences, re-experiencing of the typical and archaic - the archetypal.

Since the death of classical education (the unfortunate death and replacement by Dewey’s horrific progressive experiment), we no longer understand classical literature. So - our mythology has been replaced by modern re-telling of ancient, primordial common storylines.

In Heroic Growth, we expose the narrative that you are reliving and rewrite the narrative. Through Heroism, The Hero, and the heroic - we grow.

05/13/2025

New addition. Thank you, NYPD SVU SOMU.

05/02/2025

Heroic Growth
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05/02/2025

03/12/2025

Thank you to Police Conference of New York for inviting Thomas Coghlan to speak at the PCNY Mental Health conference regarding legislative needs, emerging trends, and key challenges in police mental health.

03/08/2025

“The hero symbolizes a man's unconscious self, and this manifests itself empirically as the sum total of all archetypes and therefore includes the archetype of the father and of the wise old man. To that extent the hero is his own father and his own begetter.” ~Jung, CW5

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.” ~ Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

There are three foundational figures to the pillars of psychodynamic theory - Freud, Adler, and Jung. When distilled and synthesized, their theories complete the tri-partite journey of the human experience.

Freud focused on the psyche, Adler on the person, and Jung on the soul. In Freudian psychoanalysis the primary mechanism is repression, in Adlerian individual psychology it is compensation, and in Jungian analytic psychology it is projection.

Through projection, we put the most intolerable, most rejected, most denied aspects of our shadow Self onto the world and others. Until we turn that projector around, and shine its images onto ourself - until we make conscious the unconscious, known the unknown - we cannot find balance in syzygy.

In the Heroic Growth approach to psychotherapy, the client is guided along the Campbellian mythopoetic journey toward integration and individuation, toward growth and transformation, and toward the ultimate boon.

“The hero myth is an unconscious drama seen only in projection, like the happenings in Plato's parable of the cave.” Jung, The Dual Mother, CW 5

Thomas Coghlan