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Strategies A-Z: Integral Psychotherapy
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What is Integral Psychotherapy?
By Dr. John Rowan
In
this previously unpublished paper, leading Integral/Transpersonal
psychotherapist and counsellor Dr John Rowan (www.johnrowan.org.uk)
outlines his approach to Integral psychotherapy.
He
challenges therapists to reach up and include realms even
beyond the 'Subtle' level, and also to include not just the
left-hand quadrants, but also the right-hand, in their work.
"This
integral approach seems to me to open up an exciting prospect
for the future of psychotherapy", concludes John.
Dr
Rowan is a founder member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute,
and is a renowned pioneer in Humanistic and Transpersonal
Psychology (and therapy). He is also the author of The
Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling.
Ken Wilber was one of the contributors to John Rowan's
festschrift, along with Tom Greening, Ian Gordon-Brown, Peter
Reason, Petruska Clarkson and others.
John
gave a presentation – ‘Extensions
to AQAL’ – based on the ideas
in this paper to the London Integral
Circle in February 2006.
A
radically edited version of this paper appeared in Drew, J
and Lorimer, D (eds.) Ways Through the Wall: Approaches
to citizenship in an Interconnected World.
Download the paper here.
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