Annotated Bibliography
- Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 15 (4), December 2005; Special issue on the future of psychotherapy integration.
- Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 16 (1), March 2006; Special issue on integrationists from the get-go.
Transpersonal Psychology and Research: Books and Websites
- Anthony, Dick, Ecker, Bruce and Wilber, Ken (eds) (1987) Spiritual Choices: The Problem of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation, New York: Paragon House. Excellent.
- Assagioli, Roberto (1991) Transpersonal Development, London: Crucible. A selection of essays from different times in Assagioli's life. Uneven but worth having.
- Bentz, Valerie M. and Shapiro, Jeremy J. (1998) Mindful Inquiry in Social Research, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Research based on Buddhist thinking.
- Boorstein, Seymour (ed.) (1996) Transpersonal Psychotherapy, 2nd edn, Albany: SUNY Press. Good chapters by people including Tart, Grof, Brookes, etc. Not updated much since 1980.
- Braud, William and Anderson, Rosemarie (eds) (1998) Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences: Honoring Human Experience, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Eye-opener.
- Cortright, Brant (1997) Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. The best handling of the theory I have seen yet.
- Denzin, Norman and Lincoln, Yvonna (eds) (2000) Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd edn, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Chapters by Lincoln and Guba, Miller and Crabtree, and Denzin.
- Drew, John and Lorimer, David (eds) (2004) Ways through the Wall: Approaches to Citizenship in an Interconnected World, Lydney: First Stone. Good chapter by Tony Turvey.
- Feinstein, David and Krippner, Stanley (1997) The Mythic Path, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Shows in detail how to work with the imaginal world, past and future. Excellent.
- Ferrer, Jorge N. (2002) Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Recent thinking, sophisticated fare.
- Ferrucci, Piero (1982) What We May Be, Wellingborough: Turnstone Press. The psychosynthesis approach, very well explained and carried out.
- Firman, John and Gila, Ann (1997) The Primal Wound: A Transpersonal View of Trauma, Addiction and Growth, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. A brilliant theoretical book from psychosynthesis.
- Fukuyama, Mary and Sevig, Todd (1999) Integrating Spirituality into Multicultural Counselling, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Really does justice to the title.
- Grof, Stanislav (1988) The Adventure of Self-discovery, Albany: SUNY Press. Has a taxonomy of transpersonal states also material on holotropic breathwork.
- Grof, Stanislav (1998) The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Grof is President of the International Transpersonal Association.
- Grof, Christina and Stanislav (1990) The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis, Los Angeles: Tarcher. Includes a chapter on addiction.
- Hardy, Jean (1987) A Psychology with a Soul, London: Routledge. Historical account of the development of psychosynthesis.
- Hart, Tobin, Nelson, Peter L. and Puhakka, Kaisa (eds) (2000) Transpersonal Knowing: Exploring the Horizon of Consciousness, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Excellent collection of essays.
- Horne, James R. (1978) Beyond Mysticism, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. A very helpful account of what mysticism is, its typology, its scope and limits.
- Johnson, Robert A. (1986) Inner Work, San Francisco: Harper & Row. Good practical work, including archetypes. Jungians are sniffy about Johnson, but this is a good book.
- Larsen, Stephen (1990) The Mythic Imagination: Your Quest for Meaning through Personal Mythology, New York: Bantam Books. A book about the imaginal world, and masks.
- Maslow, Abraham H. (1973) The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, London: Penguin. A classic. Opens up so many of the important areas of the transpersonal.
- Mintz, Elizabeth (1983) The Psychic Thread: Paranormal and Transpersonal Aspects of Psychotherapy, New York: Human Sciences Press. Myth, ritual and symbol in therapy.
- Reason, Peter and Bradbury, Hilary (eds) (2001) Handbook of Action Research, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Chapters by John Heron and Peter Reason.
- Rothberg, Donald and Kelly, Sean (eds) (1998) Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers, Wheaton: Quest Books. Deep examination of all the ideas.
- Rowan, John (1998) ‘Transformational research’, in P. Clarkson (ed.), Counselling Psychology: Integrating Theory, Research and Supervised Practice, London: Routledge
- Rowan, John (2005) The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling, 2nd edn, London: Routledge. A fairly complete rundown, strong on practice.
- Schwartz-Salant, Nathan and Stein, Murray (eds) (1987) Archetypal Processes in Psychotherapy, Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron. Fascinating papers by Edward Whitmont and others.
- Scotton, Bruce W., Chinen, Allan B. and Battista, John R. (eds) (1996) Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology, New York: Basic Books. Part 3 is very good.
- Sullivan, Barbara Stevens (1989) Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle, Wilmette, Ill.: Chiron. From a Jungian using object relations theory and transpersonal methods.
- Valle, Ronald S. and Eckartsberg, Rolf von (eds) (1981) The Metaphors of Consciousness, New York: Plenum. High-quality stuff from Tart, Moss, Pribram, Lilly, Marlan, Keen and Leary.
- Wade, Jenny (2004) Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil, New York: Paraview Pocket Books. Incorporates a serious research study. Fascinating.
- Walsh, Roger and Vaughan, Frances (eds) (1993) Paths beyond Ego, Los Angeles: Tarcher. Lots of interesting material from all the big names, but too many very short pieces in it.
- Wellings, Nigel and McCormick, Elizabeth Wilde (eds) (2000) Transpersonal Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice, London: Continuum. Based on a London training centre.
- West, William (2000) Psychotherapy and Spirituality, London: Sage. First-rate book.
- Whitmore, Diana (2004) Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action, 3rd edn, London: Sage. An excellent rundown, including much practical material.
- Wilber, Ken (2000) Integral Psychology, Boston, Mass.: Shambhala. Contains all the research on levels of consciousness from many different centuries and countries.
Some Useful Transpersonal Websites
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology General encyclopaedia entry, giving much useful information.
- www.atpweb.org/ The Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Publishes the journal.
- www.panigada.hypermart.net The other big transpersonal journal.
- www.transpersonalpsychology.org.uk Publishes the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Review
- www.mdani.demon.co.uk/trans/humtrans.htm Mike Daniels' site with university links.
- www.johnrowan.org.uk My own site, with many other links.
- www.itp.edu/ The California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
- two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/ A good site for references to psychosynthesis.
- www.eurotas.org/ The site for the European Transpersonal Association.