Transpersonal in Psychology, Psychotherapy

The Transpersonal in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling is written in an accessible style that appeals to the lay reader as well as experienced clinicians. It offers an in-depth exploration of transpersonal thinking in relationship to the helping professions, in particular psychotherapy and the 'depth psychologies'. It presents a broad yet detailed overview of transpersonal theory and its place in clinical practice. The work of the founders of the school and newer transpersonal theories are examined as well as the influence that the transpersonal perspective has had upon the major schools of psychology. Furthermore, the effect that other bodies within the humanities, such as philosophy and esoteric thought, bring to bear on the transpersonal school are also considered, as are the insights from bodies of knowledge in the hard sciences such as neurobiology and quantum physics.

Andrew Shorrock is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in Oxford and London, UK

Introduction	p. 1
What to expect from this book	p. 3
Definitions and a Potted History of Transpersonal Psychology	p. 6
The recognition of transpersonal psychology by the medical model	p. 14
Transpersonal psychology: religion with a psychological spin?	p. 20
An integrative/eclectic religious influence	p. 20
Buddhism	p. 21
The Jewish mystical tradition	p. 23
Sufism	p. 24
Spiritual counselling: religion through psychology?	p. 25
Psychology critical of the transpersonal	p. 27
Research and transpersonal psychology	p. 34
The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Transpersonal	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
The transpersonal viewpoint: is it psychology, philosophy or perhaps naivety and fancy let loose?	p. 45
The four forces of psychology	p. 49
The second force of psychology	p. 50
Evolutionary psychology	p. 64
The first force of psychology	p. 67
Neurolinguistic programming and life coaching	p. 71
The third force of psychology	p. 75
Existential psychology	p. 81
The psychology of religion	p. 88
Widening the net, moving beyond psychology	p. 92
Bringing together East and West	p. 93
Mysticism's contribution	p. 94
Consciousness research	p. 97
The new sciences	p. 106
The quantum perspective	p. 106
The quantum self	p. 108
Jung, post-Jungians and quantum effects	p. 109
The holographic model	p. 112
Philosophy	p. 117
Consciousness research method or madness	p. 119
The philosophy of science	p. 122
Social constructionism	p. 128
Coming full circle: an ending at the beginning	p. 130
A summation of the underpinnings of transpersonal psychology	p. 130
Transpersonal Theories	p. 144
Maurice Bucke	p. 146
C. G. Jung	p. 149
Alberto Assagioli and psychosynthesis	p. 155
Functions of the personality	p. 161
The will	p. 162
Assagioli's ten psychological laws	p. 162
Sub-personalities	p. 164
Psychosynthesis today	p. 167
Victor Frankl	p. 170
Ken Wilber and integral psychology	p. 171
John Nelson	p. 180
Michael Washburn	p. 182
Stanislav Grof	p. 187
Hameed Ali and the diamond approach	p. 194
Isabel Clarke and the discontinuity model	p. 200
Conclusions	p. 206
The Application of Transpersonal Thinking	p. 208
Introduction	p. 208
Spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency	p. 218
Conclusion	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 232
Author Index	p. 246
Subject Index	p. 250
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