Transpersonal Psychology

For over fifty years transpersonal psychology has provided a framework for professionals – including scientists, psychotherapists, and psychologists as well as individuals from different backgrounds – to develop the spiritual aspects of their work and explore matters beyond their everyday personal and material lives. As a concept its strength is confirmed by the increasing number of transpersonal psychotherapists and psychologists, an extensive literature, university posts in transpersonal psychology, and a wide range of associations, seminars, and websites concerned with transpersonal issues. This chapter offers a personal explanation of the transpersonal to a more general public. It indicates associations, websites, and literature for the study of this and related issues in more depth.