The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (IJTS) is a semi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal publishing on topics in transpersonal, integral and whole person approaches to psychology and related fields. IJTS is sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a university internationally recognized as a leader in integral and transpersonal education, research, and scholarship. IJTS is read in over 200 countries, papers are published with doi numbers, the impact factor for the journal is 0.23 for 2019, and the h5-index is 8. The journal has been in print since 1981, and its readership is reflected in more than 70,000 article downloads per year by about 25,000 total users.
Current Issue: Volume 38, Issue 1 (2019)
Preliminaries
Science and a Whole Person Psychology: Can Participatory Empiricism Ease the Way Forward?
Glenn Hartelius
Articles
The Castrated Gods and their Castration Cults: Revenge, Punishment, and Spiritual Supremacy
Jenny Wade
Special Topic Introduction
Transpersonal Sexuality
Introduction to the Special Topic Section on Transpersonal Sexuality: Bringing Sexy Back to Transpersonal Studies
Samuel A. Malkemus and Marie I. Thouin-Savard
Special Topic Articles
Sexual Ecstasy Scale: Conceptualizations and Measurement
John Elfers and Reid Offringa
Amigeist: A New Extreme Love Phenomenon
Jeffrey Sundberg
The Religious and Philosophical Characteristics in a Consensually Nonmonogamous Sample
Akhila E. A. Kolesar and Seth T. Pardo
Meaning-Making Among Intentionally Childless Women
Christine Brooks
Sexual Consent as Transcendence: A Phenomenological Understanding
Mark A. Levand and Nicolle Zapien
Sexuality, Esoteric Energies, and the Subtleties of Transmutation Versus Transformation
Barnaby B. Barratt
Erotic Mindfulness: A Core Educational and Therapeutic Strategy in Somatic Sexology Practices
Marie I. Thouin-Savard
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