Boorstein, Seymour - Psychotherapy and Spiritual Paths
Psychology and Psychotherapy
•
27m
While meditation may be ideal for some individuals, others with poorly developed ego structures may be harmed by engaging in intensive spiritual practices designed to dissolve the boundaries of the ego, according to Seymour Boorstein, M.D.. A psychoanalyst and editor of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Dr. Boorstein discusses his transformation from a conventional--and athiestic--psychiatrist to a student of spirituality.
Up Next in Psychology and Psychotherapy
-
Bugental, James - Humanistic Psychoth...
Humanistic-existential psychotherapy is a journey toward greater wholeness and aliveness. The late James Bugental, Ph.D., was the first president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, president of the California State Psychological Association. He is author of The Search for Authenticity,...
-
Palmer, Helen - Personality Developme...
Certain paranoid and neurotic states can open the mind to a range of intuitive and psychic experiences, according to this provocative discussion with Helen Palmer, Ph.D.. Author of The Enneagram and a noted psychic intuitive, psychologist and founder of the Center for the Investigation and Traini...
-
Perry, John Weir - Visionary Experien...
The psychiatric community errs in treating visionary experience as a form of mental illness, says Jungian psychotherapist John Weir Perry, M.D.. The late Dr. Perry was the author of many books including The Heart of History and The Far Side of Madness. He suggests that psychiatric labelling and t...
