A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy: Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice

by Forman, Mark D.

• ISBN13: 9781438430249
• ISBN10: 1438430248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This book provides a practical introduction to Integral Psychotherapy, which positions itself as the most comprehensive approach to psychotherapy yet offered. Grounded in the work of theoretical psychologist and philosopher Ken Wilber, it organizes the key insights and interventions of pharmacological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, existential, feminist, multicultural, somatic, and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy. Integral Psychotherapy does not attempt to unify these diverse models, but rather takes a metatheoretical perspective, giving general guidelines for which is most appropriate in a wide range of clinical situations. It also strongly emphasizes the therapist’s own personal development, under the premise that the depth and complexity of the human psyche must be understood first within the self if it is to be understood fully in others. This essential text is for therapists and others drawn to holistic approaches to psychotherapy, and serves as a theoretical ground and precise guide for those interested in applying the Integral model in therapeutic practice.

Author Biography

Mark D. Forman is a clinical psychologist who has worked in a variety of settings, including the Salvation Army's Adult Substance Rehabilitation Program, Kaiser Permanente's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and San Jos State University's Student Counseling Center. Forman is the cofounder of the Integral Theory Conference, the first academic conference devoted to the field of Integral Theory and its application. He is in private practice in California.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Integral Theory and the Principles of Integral Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy as a Four-Quadrant Affair

Drives and the Unconscious from an Integral Perspective

Dynamic and Incorporative Development

Lines of Development in Practice: Cognition, Self-System, and Maturity

Prepersonal Identity Development

Early and Mid-Personal Identity Development

Late Personal and Transpersonal Identity Development

Interventions for the Prepersonal and Early Personal Stages

Interventions for the Mid-Personal, Late Personal, and Transpersonal Stages

Spirituality in Integral Psychotherapy

Gender and Typology in Integral Psychotherapy

Diversity in Practice

The Development of the Integral Psychotherapist

References

Index

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