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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