Integral Counseling: The Prepersonal, Personal, and Transpersonal in Self, Culture, and Nature
Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holden, Andre Marquis
January 19, 2011 DOI: 10.4324/9780203886120-19 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that Ken Wilber's integral theory explicitly includes a transpersonal dimension of psychological and spiritual experience, despite his long-standing disassociation from the label of transpersonal thinker, and that the relationship between transpersonal psychology and integral psychology and counseling is a subject of discussion. |
Abstract
For much of his career, Ken Wilber developed his ideas in association with the eld of transpersonal psychology, although he has not called himself a transpersonal thinker, per se, for more than 20 years. Yet one of the outstanding features of his theory, which he has termed integral, is its explicit inclusion of a transpersonal dimension of psychological and spiritual experience. The following section will begin with an explanation of the term transpersonal, provide a brief overview of the history of the eld of transpersonal psychology, and conclude with a discussion of the relationship between transpersonal psychology and integral psychology and counseling.