A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy: Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice (SUNY series in Integral Theory)

Author: Mark D. FormanPublisher: State University of New York PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 1438430248ISBN 13: 978-1438430249A therapist’s guide to psychotherapy, spirituality, and self-development.This book provides a practical introduction to Integral Psychotherapy, which positions itself as the most comprehensive approach to psychotherapy yet offered. Grounded in the work of theoretical psychologist and philosopher Ken Wilber, it organizes the key insights and interventions of pharmacological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, existential, feminist, multicultural, somatic, and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy. Integral Psychotherapy does not attempt to unify these diverse  models, but rather takes a metatheoretical perspective, giving general guidelines for which is most appropriate in a wide range of clinical situations. It also strongly emphasizes the therapist’s own personal development, under the premise that the depth and complexity of the human psyche must b