Research
The transpersonal perspective spans many research interests. The following list is adapted from the Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology and includes:
- The contributions of spiritual traditions - Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism, Vajrayana, Zen, Taoism, Tantra, Shamanism, Kabbalah, Sufism, Spiritism and Christian mysticism - to psychiatry and psychology
- Native American healing
- Aging and adult spiritual development
- Meditation research and clinical aspects of meditation
- Consciousness studies and research
- Transpersonal-based approach to educational action research
- Psychedelics, Ethnopharmacology, and Psychopharmacology
- Parapsychology
- Cross-cultural studies and Anthropology
- Diagnosis of Religious and Spiritual Problems
- Offensive spirituality and spiritual defenses
- The treatment of former members of cults
- Transpersonal Psychotherapy
- Music therapy
- Addiction and recovery
- Guided-Imagery and Visualization Therapy
- Guided Imagery and Music
- Breathwork
- Dying and near-death experience (NDE)
- Past life therapy
- Ecological survival
- Social change
- Out-of-body experience
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Famous quotes containing the word research:
“I did my research and decided I just had to live it.”
—Karina O’Malley, U.S. sociologist and educator. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A5 (September 16, 1992)
“One of the most important findings to come out of our research is that being where you want to be is good for you. We found a very strong correlation between preferring the role you are in and well-being. The homemaker who is at home because she likes that “job,” because it meets her own desires and needs, tends to feel good about her life. The woman at work who wants to be there also rates high in well-being.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)