| Titel: | Review of Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth and Opening the Heart |
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| Autor: | Sovatsky, Stua |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Transpersonal Psychology |
| Jahr: | 2011 |
| Band: | 43 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Seiten: | 104-107 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Reviews the book, "Integral psychology: Yoga, Growth and Opening the Heart" by Brant Cortright (2007). Cortright’s deeply insightful Integral Psychology situates central themes of Western ego psychologies—psychoanalytic "instinctive self," self psychology and object relations "relational/developmental needs," psychodynamic "childhood wounding," existentialism’s "embodied concerns," gestalt’s "emotional authenticity," Reichian "armoring against feeling-energies," humanistic "embodied self vulnerabilities," cognitive therapy’s "mental self" and the Jungian "imaginal self"—within trans-egoic Indian Psychologies. Cortright offers a helpful critique of mere categorizing of "types of spiritual emergences" as barely helpful to crisis-facing clinicians, who must often choose with urgency among hospitalization, medication or nonmedication"spiritually-oriented" responses to clients presenting potentially life-wrecking elevated states. These critiques notwithstanding, Cortright’s integration of Western psychologies with the spiritual psychologies of the East has profound implications for the psychological healing and maturation of not only individuals, but for Western civilization’s overly materialistic, soulless skew. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |