Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20104508519

Abstract

Transpersonal Psychology has been considered the fourth force in psychology, after behaviorism, psychoanalysis and the
humanist trend. It studies the states of consciousness and its application in health and education, and it understands humans as bio-
-psycho-social-spiritual beings. It integrates in practice many consecrated exercises used in Western and Eastern psychology. In the health
field it has advanced due to research in the areas of neuroscience, meditation, extended states of conscience and the understanding
of phenomenological states of enteogenous substances. In Brazil, Psychologist Vera Saldanha developed the Transpersonal integrative
approach aiming at integrating harmonically neuropsychic functions such as reason, emotion, intuition and sensation in order to promote
human evolution in clinical experience.