How do you experience events?

There are several approaches to transpersonal psychotherapy described by Cortright (1997). Ken Wilber’s Spectrum model focuses upon distinctions between consciousness and transpersonal states (p. 65) as well as defining prepersonal, personal, and transpersonal levels of consciousness which desires to bridge the gap between psychology and spirituality (p. 73).

An additional approach to transpersonal psychotherapy discussed by Cortright (1997) is Hameed Ali’s Diamond Approach. This theory consists of the concept of essence and essential qualities which includes using the physical body to sense essence which includes the feelings of truth, compassion and value as well as the essential qualities such as access to real love or wisdom (p. 91-92).

However, Michael Washburn’s contributions and added innovations to Carl Jung’s perspective of psychology is perhaps the most interesting from a Western psychological perspective. Washburn has discussed that the ego has a deeper relationship with the unconscious mind as well as a role in separating itself from the conscious mind by avoiding painful situations (Cortright, 1997, p. 82).

Jung and Washburn discussed that there is a separate self that experiences situations in a more authentic manner versus how the ego experiences events. This model has strengths such as clinical applicability to events such as mid-life crises and the fusion of Western approaches with transpersonal views of the subconsciousness, recognition of archetypes and collective unconsciousness, and that regression can present a great opportunity for research in the ability for a psychotherapist to assess long term psychological wounds (Cortright, 1997, p. 89).

This model could benefit from research extending from a focus on mid-life crises, exlusive Western philosophy, and further definition of exactly what the Self means with regard to the spiritual or soulful insight other theories discuss. However, Washburn’s theory of repression, retrieval, and regression therapy to manage deep pain as a healing perspective continues to be a foundation for transpersonal psychology (Lev, 2006).

Cortright, B. (1997). Psychotherapy and spirit: Theory and practice in transpersonal psychology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Lev, Shoshana. (2006). Regression in the service of transcendence. Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, 4(1/2), 207-210.

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