rise and emergence of modern psychology occurred in the second half of the last century.While a dominant position among the various schools of thought held behaviorism and psychoanalysis.And she and the other school, in addition to purely theoretical research, offers its own approach to the treatment of various mental illnesses.Despite the rather broad theoretical and practical base, both areas had their own significant drawbacks, it is sufficient to find ardent adversaries.Psychological Society required a completely different view of man: the position where he could not be represented as a neurotic or a set of mechanical or learned action.Against the background of such disturbances get their lives transpersonal psychology.
The fact that it is based on a much more ambitious and global school - humanistic psychology, defines the basic provisions of this trend.In particular, the founder and ideologist of the humanistic views Maslow believes that a person can not be represented exclusively in the framework of laboratory studies and observations based on his instincts and passions.He proposed to consider the person as a collection of aspirations, and their own experiences, individual experience.Transpersonal psychology has gone further, suggesting that the person is determined not only and not so much personal experience as feelings and experience beyond his "I".Assuming the existence of higher forces and phenomena, incomprehensible and beyond everyday human experience, advocates of this line are widely used drugs.
associate with hippie drug "freedom and love", transpersonal psychology is really capable of receiving illicit drugs, but only as auxiliary materials.Acceptance of such substances allowed "to expand the boundaries of understanding", to look at everyday life in a new way and reflect on what had previously been hidden from the view of a man accustomed to externally imposed perception of the world.In general, transpersonal psychology - is an attempt to "expand consciousness," and see that person as an individual and an individual can not comprehend.To reach such heights can be, figuratively speaking, connected to the "universal mind" - the structure that combines the experience and the consciousness of humanity.The ultimate goal of such "journeys" is the acquisition of new knowledge and experience, allows us to understand the structure of the universe, to feel a part of it and as a part of his personality.People who have successful experience in transpersonal studies claim that discovered the multi-dimensionality of the world is aware of the non-physical forms of perception.
Currently, this line of psychology is associated primarily with the work of a Czech scientist Stanislav Grof.It was through his work transpersonal psychology has been enriched by the term "advanced states of consciousness", which focused on the achievement of all the values that are described above.As the techniques that offer S. Grof, you can select "holotropic breath" - a special method, during which increases the speed of inhalations and less time to exhale.According to the scientist, this way you can get to the transpersonal level of output, it is possible to enter the state, inaccessible to ordinary life.In particular, the "get used to the role of" the other person, plant, animal, and, with proper approach and sufficient experience, gain knowledge of God.
On the basis of this approach was born special Psychotherapy - transpersonal psychotherapy.It is also the primary method of holotropic breathing, allowing, according to the adherents of this method, to experience the birth, which is useful when working with infant and child injuries.
