Integral Psychotherapy

David M. Zeitler, R. Elliott Ingersoll

Description

In Integral Psychotherapy, self-help meets rigorous scholarship. Integral Psychotherapy is a dynamic framework for understanding the mind and uniting spirituality and psychotherapy. Authors Elliott Ingersoll and David M. Zeitler use Ken Wilber's Integral Model to guide readers through a startling new view of psychotherapy as a spiritual journey of self-discovery. This is the first book that grounds the Integral approach in mainstream research while showing how Integral Psychotherapy treats body, mind, and spirit, and it offers an accurate history of many psychological ideas (some mistaken) prevalent in our society. Integral Psychotherapy debunks the fads and fashions of self-help gurus while mapping terrain readers can use to bring their lives into focus. With humor and compassion the authors show that the life of the mind is complex and complexity is our friend.
List of Illustrations
Prologue

1. Introduction

2. Perspectives and Psychotherapy

3. The Self-System and Ego Development

4. Lines and Levels of Development

5. Types and Styles

6. States of Consciousness and Psychotherapy

7. Psychological Address

8. Spirituality and Integral Psychotherapy

Appendix: A Case Study
Notes
Index

Sujets

• Humanistic psychology
• Psychotherapy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 août 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438433530
• Langue: English

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SUNY series in Integral Theory

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, editor

Integral Psychotherapy
Inside Out/Outside In
R. Elliott Ingersoll
— and —
David M. Zeitler

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ingersoll, R. Elliott, 1962–
    Integral psychotherapy : inside out/outside in / R. Elliott Ingersoll and David M. Zeitler.
          p. ; cm. — (SUNY series in integral theory)
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 978-1-4384-3351-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    ISBN 978-1-4384-3352-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    1. Eclectic psychotherapy. I. Zeitler, David M., 1973– II. Title. III. Series: SUNY series in integral theory.
    [DNLM: 1. Psychotherapy—methods. 2. Spirituality. WM 420 I47i 2010]
    RC489.E24.I525 2010
    616.89'14—dc22                                                                                            2009052827
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To five wise women who have been central to my own Integral Life Practice. First and foremost my wife Jenn for her love, patience, and support. She takes on the world so I can retreat from it to write and always welcomes me back when the books are done. Next to Susan Wilcox and Dr. Jaclyn Miller, two healers who walked me through my own shadow so many times. Also to Lisa Shiu—my awesome trainer who worked me so hard in the gym that sitting at the computer for 8 hours seemed like a good idea. Finally to Heidi Longauer who helped me hear the music again and sing my own tune (even when nobody else sang along).
—EI
For Rich, David, Bert, and Keith, for all the learning and the laughter … especially the laughter.
—DZ

List of Illustrations

Tables
Table 4.1    Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Table 4.2    Six Steps to Transformation in the Self-System's Lines
Table 4.3    Lines with Empirical Evidence
Table 4.4    Lines with Anecdotal Evidence
Table 4.5    Lines of Interest
Table 4.6    Regulated Level Groupings
Table 4.7    Related Line Groupings
Table 5.1    Correlations between different versions of the Enneagram
Table 5.2    Cloninger's Seven Factors
Table 5.3    Kurt Schneider's Personality Typolog
Table 5.4    Harry Sullivan's Personality Types
Table 8.1    Polarities that Limit Transpersonal Psychotherapies

Figures
Figure 1.1    The Intersecting Lines of the Integral Model
Figure 1.2    The Four Quadrants of Integral Theory
Figure 2.1    The Four Quadrants of Integral Theory
Figure 2.2    Language of each quadrant
Figure 2.3    Language of each quadrant and emphasis of zones in each quadrant
Figure 3.1    The Integral Self-System
Figure 4.1    An Integral Map of Lines
Figure 5.1    Wundt's two Dimensions of Personality Type
Figure 5.2    Nine-sided Star Polygon
Figure 5.3    Enneagram used in Fourth Way Teaching
Figure 5.4    Cloninger's Trait Construct in the Four Quadrants
Figure 5.5    Quadratic Heuristic of Typological Constructs
Figure 5.6    Quadratic Heuristic of Sex-Typing Constructs
Figure 6.1    “Hotspot” sheet for Janine
Figure 6.2    Janine's nightmare by quadrant
Figure 7.1    Dana's Integral Psychological Address
Figure 7.2    Integral Psychotherapy Cube
Figure 8.1    AQAL Basics of Spirituality and Religion
Figure 8.2    Modified Wilber-Combs Matrix
Figure 8.3    The W-C Matrix in the Psychotherapy Cube
Figure 8.4    Janine's Nested Self-System
Figure A.1    Quadratic Heuristic of Mark's Style
Figure A.2    Cheryl's DSM Diagnosis

Prologue
R. E LLIOTT I NGERSOLL

Death is everywhere .
—Depeche Mode
I n many ways Integral Psychotherapy heralds the death of psychotherapy; a death like all others that yields new life. Statements like that are not well received by psychotherapists and academics (I know this because I am a psychotherapist and an academic). I am reminded of the scorned “madman” in Nietzsche's parable who runs about proclaiming the death of God (running about proclaiming anything makes psychotherapists and academics nervous). When I say that psychotherapy (as those of us trained in the late 20th century learned it) is dead, my colleagues roll their eyes and mutter, “here we go again.” In response all I can say is: “Well, here we go again.”
In all fairness, my more literate colleagues have seen their share of “death.” Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. 1 Alexander Kojeve proclaimed the death of man 2 and Michel Foucault noted that the death of God was a “doubly murderous gesture which by putting an end to the absolute, at the same time murdered man himself.” 3 It gets better. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author concluding that the intentions and biographical background of an author are unimportant in interpreting a text. 4 Queer theory proclaimed the death of the subject in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic because the individual subject as an agentic focus in studies of sexually transmitted diseases scapegoated gays.
All this “death” is old news for those familiar with postmodern philosophy but postmodernism failed to grasp the mythic image of a garden where new life sprouts from rotting (or in this case deconstructed) remains. As both gods and vegetables die and are resurrected, fresh sprouts push through discarded frameworks for psychotherapy. These sprouts include efforts to integrate psychotherapy theories 5 and missives that explain away psychotherapy by explaining away the existence of the mind. 6 If anything can be said of postmodernists generally it is that they were lousy gardeners—they didn't even suspect that new sprouts would appear (I'll refrain from the temptation to announce the death of postmodernism). The result in psychotherapy was a dismissal of the postmodernists, a marginal existence for constructivists and a disinterest in the sprouts. A majority of psychotherapists have retreated into parochial theories focused on quantitative exploration and a disturbingly fanatical fascination with biological psychiatry 7 that Freud, were he alive today, would call “science envy.”
This “fascination” with “brain sans mind,” led to psychologists' campaign for psychotropic medication prescribing privileges (which is succeeding in many U.S. states and territories). There is an old joke that psychiatrists studied medicine but don't practice it and practice psychology but never studied it. A similar joke may soon be apt for the psychologists running around with prescription pads. Just as Kant summarized the modern era by noting that modernity was typified by people feeling embarrassed to be found on their knees praying, in our post-postmodern era many psychotherapists seem embarrassed to admit that they do “talk therapy” even though we know talk therapy is as effective as ever. 8 Therapists can usually assuage the embarrassment noting that they are “up to date” about the latest breakthroughs in psychotropic medication or gene expression 9 and by taking continuing education courses in medical colleges.
From an Integral perspective what is it about psychotherapy that is “dead?” Part of the difficulty answering this is that human beings never agreed on what psychotherapy is, or for that matter, what the psyche is that is the subject of such therapy. This may surprise the lay reader and I summ