In t eg ral Coun se lin g
Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holden, Andre Marquis
Routledge eBooks June 2, 2004 DOI: 10.4324/9780203500996-19 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The section describes the meaning and history of transpersonal psychology and its relationship to Ken Wilber's "integral" psychology and counseling, noting that Wilber's integral theory explicitly includes a transpersonal dimension of psychological and spiritual experience even though he has not identified as a transpersonal thinker for nearly 20 years. |
Abstract
For much of his career, Ken Wilber developed his ideas in association with \nthe field of transpersonal psychology, although he has not called himself a \ntranspersonal thinker, per se, for nearly 20 years. Yet one of the outstanding \nfeatures of his theory, which he has termed integral, is its explicit inclusion of \na transpersonal dimension of psychological and spiritual experience. The \nfollowing section will begin with an explanation of the term "transpersonal," \nprovide a brief overview of the history of the field of transpersonal psychol\nogy, and conclude with a discussion of the relationship between transpersonal \npsychology and integral psychology and counseling.