Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)

by Michael Washburn

Paperback, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

150.19

Publication

State University of New York Press (1994), 384 pages

Description

In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development. Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

9 inches

ISBN

0791419541 / 9780791419540

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