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Transpersonal therapy (discussion, not request)

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  • 31-10-2014 11:04pm
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    The Black Oil
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    I had not heard this concept until fairly recently. It came up in the context of the death of Robin Williams, mental illness, homelessness and 'transpersonal pain'. I've done some brief searching, there's a journal and an association.

    Has anyone here ever come across it, in what sort situations is it useful?
    The Transpersonal, like most forms of psychotherapy, involves the therapist assisting the client on their course towards individuation (Stevens 1990), a process that involves the rediscovery of aspects of themselves located within the collective unconscious. Within Transpersonal psychotherapy much of this work is done not just through the relationship between the therapist and the client, a major aspect that as Yalom (2001) regularly discusses, can on its own be very healing, but also by using a variety of creative techniques as a means of accessing the same unconscious. Dreams, drawing, visualisations, sand tray work and other methods of ‘play’ are all often used in the work to draw to the surface client material that they may not necessarily be aware of, or have actively suppressed (Storr 1979).

    Lifted from here.

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    Labarbapostiza
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    It's some kind of Jungian off shoot. (You either buy into Jung or you don't......I don't)

    The terrifying thing about Willliams, is that he was receiving treatment, and had been for a very long time.

    He was suffering from Complex PTSD. He had "coped" with it through drugs and alcohol, and his art. He was a successful child abuse survivor, in being able to parlay his survival techniques, and personal damage into a lucrative career in entertainment.


    The Jungian "let's sit on yoga mats and take deep breaths......and tomorrow we make a sand Mandala"...probably works for people who indulge in psychotherapy for entertainment purposes.


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