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| Introduction | |
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| What to expect from this book | |
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| Definitions and a Potted History of Transpersonal Psychology | |
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| The recognition of transpersonal psychology by the medical model | |
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| Transpersonal psychology: religion with a psychological spin? | |
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| An integrative/eclectic religious influence | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| The Jewish mystical tradition | |
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| Sufism | |
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| Spiritual counselling: religion through psychology? | |
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| Psychology critical of the transpersonal | |
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| Research and transpersonal psychology | |
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| The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Transpersonal | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The transpersonal viewpoint: is it psychology, philosophy or perhaps naivety and fancy let loose? | |
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| The four forces of psychology | |
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| The second force of psychology | |
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| Evolutionary psychology | |
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| The first force of psychology | |
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| Neurolinguistic programming and life coaching | |
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| The third force of psychology | |
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| Existential psychology | |
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| The psychology of religion | |
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| Widening the net, moving beyond psychology | |
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| Bringing together East and West | |
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| Mysticism's contribution | |
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| Consciousness research | |
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| The new sciences | |
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| The quantum perspective | |
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| The quantum self | |
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| Jung, post-Jungians and quantum effects | |
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| The holographic model | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| Consciousness research method or madness | |
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| The philosophy of science | |
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| Social constructionism | |
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| Coming full circle: an ending at the beginning | |
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| A summation of the underpinnings of transpersonal psychology | |
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| Transpersonal Theories | |
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| Maurice Bucke | |
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| C. G. Jung | |
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| Alberto Assagioli and psychosynthesis | |
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| Functions of the personality | |
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| The will | |
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| Assagioli's ten psychological laws | |
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| Sub-personalities | |
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| Psychosynthesis today | |
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| Victor Frankl | |
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| Ken Wilber and integral psychology | |
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| John Nelson | |
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| Michael Washburn | |
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| Stanislav Grof | |
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| Hameed Ali and the diamond approach | |
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| Isabel Clarke and the discontinuity model | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Application of Transpersonal Thinking | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |