Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal Psychology is a hypothesis of mental health masquerading as legitimate psychology. Transpersonal psychology is based on the notion that trauma in past lives, birth, gestation and disconnection from God/energy/transcendent/soulTheoretical and empirical basis of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy: Observations from LSD research by Stanislav Grof (1973) Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 5(1):15-53. has left everyone sick. Practitioners attempt to heal this sickness… usually at a large cost, which would not be a problem except they are treating a disease that doesn't exist.
Transpersonal psychology has fundamental problems: it has a multiplicity of definitions from within the field,"The Challenges, Prospects, and Promise of Transpersonal Psychology" by Paul F. Cunningham (2007) International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 26(1):41-55. doi:10.24972/ijts.2007.26.1.41. it is based on metaphysics (which is unfalsifiable), it was strongly influenced by the New Age Human Potential MovementTranspersonal Psychology: Exploring the farther reaches of human nature. by Steve Taylor (Sep 25, 2015) Psychology Today. and it is lacking in a biological basis, peddling a wide range of pseudoscientific ideas, e.g.: 
Bridging Psychological Science and Transpersonal Spirit: Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology by Paul F. Cunningham (2011).
Stanislav GrofNew Perspectives in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: Observations from Modern Consciousness Researchby Stanislav Grof coined the term but it has a long tradition; it has peppered the works of pseudoscience promoters, of all stripes and colours, since the eighteenth century including Jeffrey Sumber, William James, Carl Jung, Deepak Chopra, Bruce Greyson and Ervin Laszlo.6 Facts about Transpersonal Psychology by Margarita Tartakovsky, PsychCentral (archived from November 4, 2011). According to Grof, shamans have something to do with transpersonal psychology and hold the secret for the Western world.Psychology of the Future Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research by Stanislav Grof (2000) State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791446220.
Frameworks used by transpersonal psychologists, such as by Ken Willbur, may lack outside reference points and thus lead to tautologies and ambiguity.A Theistic Perspective on Ken Wilber's Transpersonal Psychology by George Adams (2002) Journal of Contemporary Religion 17(2).
Transpersonal psychology may look like this:Soul Realignment™ (archived from February 4, 2016). 
Or this:Energy Realignment by Maralie Martin (archived from August 23, 2018). 
It's best to stay clear of these people.
==Gems of transpersonal psychology==
Abraham Maslow:Abraham Maslow, Transpersonal Psychology, and self-Transcendence by Timothy Conway (2008) Rare-Leadership.org (archived from June 28, 2016).
 
William James:William James, Theosophist By Tony Lysy (2013) Theosophical Society (archived from 11 Feb 2014 22:00:14 UTC).
Stanislav Grof:New Perspectives in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: Observations from Modern Consciousness Research by Stanislav Grof (archived from April 15, 2015).
Carl JungCarl Jung says God is reality itself (January 7, 2013) these things inside, WordPress.
==See also==
*Dream interpretation
*Genetic memory
*Pseudoscience
*Pseudopsychology
*Shamanism
==References==
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