A Comparison of Psychotherapies
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Before beginning a discussion of the principles of transpersonal psychotherapy, it may be u.onh considering the importance of a transpersonal perspective for therapeutic work. In acknowledging a wider spectrum and greater potential for psycholqical well-being and transcendence than do traditional approaches, the transpersonal perspective affords individuals who are ready to do so the oppor run i~ of working in an expanded context. Because it recognizes the importance of transpersonall transcendental experiences, these can be treated appropriately as valuable opportunities for growth. Individuals and systems that do not recognize the possibility of transpersonal awareness tend to interpret such experiences from an inappropriate and pathologizing perspective. This can easily lead to pathologizing interpretations and damaging suppression for healthy individuals who are beginning to move into the transpersonal realm. The goals of transpersonal therapy indude both traditional ones such as symptom relief and behavior change, and where appropriate, optimal work at the transpmonal level. This may include the provisionof an adquare conceptual framework for handling transpersonal experiences. information on psychological potential, and the importance of assuming responsibility, not only for one's behavior. but also for one's experience. In addition to working through psychodynamic processes, the therapist aims to assist the dient in disidentifying from and transcending psychodynamic issues. Thus the therapist may instruct the client in the possibility of using all life experience as a part of learning (karma yoga), the potentials of altered states, and the limitations and dangers of atrachrnent to fixed models and expectations. The therapist may also intend that the therapeutic encounter be used as a karma yoga to optimize F O W T ~ of both panicipants in a mutually facilitating manner. These goals in turn facilitate the aim of enabling the client to extract awareness from the tyranny of conditioning. Transpersonal therapeutic techniques include both Eastern and Western methods for working with consciousness. Various forms of meditation and yoga may be added to more conventional techniques. The primary aim of these tools is nor so much to change experience per se, as to . .\ " ., . .,as=., u .uua..-.. \---,
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