Transpersonal psychotherapy
As Transpersonal Psychotherapy different are psychotherapeutic approaches referred resulting from the transpersonal psychology have emerged or build on their models.
The essential commonality of these approaches is the assumption that every person has the potential to have experiences that "transcend" the personal identification of the ego . These experiences should have a healing effect and decisively promote personality development. The most important elements and goals of transpersonal psychotherapy are thus the realization of a transpersonal experience and the integration of this experience.
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The techniques used are very diverse. Are important spiritual experience ways of religions such elements of Eastern meditation , Christian contemplation and other traditions like the Sufism , Shamanism or Jewish mysticism ( Kabbalah ), next to the more physically oriented therapies such as body therapies of Wilhelm Reich or initiatory therapy of Professor Durckheim . What they all have in common is an emphasis on mindfulness or the conscious focus on the body, the sensations or simply "existence". On this basis, the psychosynthesis (humanistic, positive psychotherapy approach ) by Roberto Assagioli and currently a transpersonal behavioral therapy developed .
A transpersonal psychotherapy is therefore often composed of a spiritual technique and a psychotherapy that is in the context of Western psychology. There is criticism from both sides. On the one hand, academic and clinical psychology are usually hostile to a mixture of spiritual and psychological approaches. The reasons for this are often different models and goals with regard to personality and health . Representatives of religious traditions also reject transpersonal approaches in psychotherapy for similar reasons, often pointing out that no spiritual tradition aims at the realization of mystical or transpersonal experiences regardless of the respective cultural and religious context.
Psychotherapeutic procedures
- Initiatic therapy according to Graf Dürckheim
- Psychosynthesis according to Roberto Assagioli
- transpersonal behavioral therapy
- Process-oriented psychology according to Arnold Mindell
- Holotropic breathing according to Stanislav Grof
- Psycholytic psychotherapy
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University of Bremen, Faculty: Human and Health Sciences, "The Integral Personality Development" Diploma thesis by Katrin Sattler, Bremen, April 2010
Web links
- German-language server for transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy (status: 1996-2000)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Piron (2007): Transpersonal Behavior Therapy. From stagnation to transformation. Via Nova Verlag, Petersberg.
- ↑ Joachim Galuska : The wide space behind things: What is transpersonal therapy aimed at? ( Memento of April 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) In: connection and What is transpersonal oriented therapy aimed at? as a PDF file; 38.1 kB