Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal Psychology is a school of psychology that studies the spiritual aspects of the human experience, terming these experiences transpersonal or transcendent. This includes things such as religious experience, altered states of consciousness, trance and other spiritual practices.

Various thinkers contributed to the field that emerged as Transpersonal Psychology, including Roberto Assagioli, William James, Carl Jung, and Abraham Maslow. However it wasn't until the 1960's when Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, and Viktor Frankl suggested the adoption of the term Transpersonal Psychology for this particular field.

In recent times, a number of branches of psychology and psychotherapy have been classified as Transpersonal schools. These include the Analytical Psychology of Carl Jung; Archetypal Psychology of James Hillman; Psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli. Along with the theories and practices outlined by Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn and Charles Tart.

Roberto Assagioli's final book (published after his death) is called Transpersonal Development: The Dimension Beyond Psychosynthesis. So while the process of Psychosynthesis begins with personal Psychosynthesis (understanding and integrating the various psychological aspects), it leads to an ultimate goal of synthesis between the personal self and the Transpersonal Self (also called Higher Self, or Deep Self).

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