The first concise overview of transpersonal psychotherapy.
Brant Cortright is Director of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
(6)
Part 1: Transpersonal Theory
Basic Assumptions
7
(18)
Defining Transpersonal Psychology
8
(2)
Defining Transpersonal Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice
10
(1)
Theory
11
(5)
Basic Assumptions
16
(5)
Practice
21
(1)
Challenges for Transpersonal Psychotherapy
22
(3)
The Psycho-Spiritual Framework
25
(26)
The Spiritual Dimension
26
(6)
The Psychological Dimension
32
(6)
The Integrating Transpersonal Framework
38
(1)
Transpersonal Models of Transformation
39
(3)
Some Historical Prejudices
42
(6)
Conclusion
48
(3)
Consciousness
51
(12)
The Methodology of Consciousness
52
(3)
The Therapeutic Power of Being with What Is
55
(1)
The Therapist's Consciousness
56
(7)
Part 2: Specific Approaches
Approaches to Transpersonal Psychotherapy
63
(60)
Ken Wilber's Spectrum Model
64
(17)
Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology and Michael Washburn's Recent Innovations
81
(9)
Hameed Ali's Diamond Approach
90
(5)
Roberto Assagioli's Psychosynthesis
95
(2)
Stanislav Grof's Holotropic Model
97
(5)
Existential Transpersonal Psychotherapy
102
(6)
Transpersonal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
108
(7)
Body-Centered Transpersonal Approaches
115
(4)
Conclusion
119
(4)
Part 3: Clinical Issues
Meditation and Psychotherapy
123
(32)
Spirit Paths---Impersonal Divine
127
(7)
Soul Paths---Personal Divine
134
(6)
Practices Shared by Spirit and Soul Paths
140
(8)
Conclusions and Discussion
148
(7)
Spiritual Emergency
155
(26)
A New View of Spiritual Experience
157
(1)
Spiritual Emergence Versus Spiritual Emergency
158
(2)
Forms of Spiritual Emergency
160
(9)
Differential Diagnosis
169
(4)
Treatment
173
(5)
Implications of Spiritual Emergency
178
(3)
Altered States of Consciousness
181
(24)
Effects of Psychedelic Drugs
183
(4)
Models of Working Therapeutically
187
(4)
Effects of the Feeling Enhancers
191
(2)
Working Therapeutically
193
(1)
Guidelines for Use
194
(7)
Limitations of Altered State Work
201
(2)
Implications
203
(2)
Selected Topics in Transpersonal Psychotherapy
205
(24)
Birth and Death
205
(4)
Spiritual By-passing
209
(6)
Addiction and Recovery
215
(3)
Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas
218
(11)
Part 4: Conclusion
Principles of Transpersonal Practice
229
(16)
Principles
229
(13)
Conclusion
242
(3)
References
245
(8)
Index
253
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