CIIS Faculty Publications
Title
Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart
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Description
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.
ISBN
0791470717
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
SUNY Press
City
Albany, New York
Keywords
Integral Psychotherapy, Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Integral Psychology
Disciplines
Counseling Psychology
Recommended Citation
Cortright, Brant, "Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart" (2007). CIIS Faculty Publications. 5.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/5