Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart

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State University of New York Press, Mar 10, 2010 - Psychology - 242 pages
Integral Psychology connects Eastern and Western approaches to psychology and healing. Psychology in the East has focused on our inner being and spiritual foundation of the psyche. Psychology in the West has focused on our outer being and the wounding of the body-heart-mind and self. Each requires the other to complete it, and in bringing them together an integral view of psychology comes into view.

The classical Indian yogas are used as a way to see psychotherapy: psychotherapy as behavior change or karma yoga; psychotherapy as mindfulness practice or jnana yoga; psychotherapy as opening the heart or bhakti yoga. Finally, an integral approach is suggested that synthesizes traditional Western and Eastern practices for healing, growth, and transformation.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Part 1 Integral Psychology
7
Part 2 Integral Psychotherapy
87
Appendix A The Philosophical Foundation of Integral Psychology
165
Appendix B An Integral Approach to Spiritual Emergency
187
Notes
207
References
223
Index
229
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At the California Institute of Integral Studies, Brant Cortright is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology program. He is the author of Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, also published by SUNY Press.

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