With solid scholarship wide scope and accessible style textbook of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology will become the standard work for students researchers clinicians and lay readers interested in extending psychiatry and psychology into sciences that describe the functioning of the human mind thereby building bridges between those disciplines and spirituality. A comprehensive and very informative survey of the transpersonal psychology movement that emerged in the 1960s it starts out by setting the cultural context which lays the foundations for essays on the work of freud other early psychologists the humanistic movement maslow and then the founders and contributors to transpersonal theory and therapy jung assagioli wilber and others each chapter provides succinct yet comprehensive perspectives on the many schools of thought . Textbook of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology editors bruce w scotton allan b chinen john r battista john robert battista publisher basic books 1996 original from the university. The textbook of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology provides us with the first comprehensive integrative and at the same time provocative text of this important field of study it will likely serve as the first authoritative text on transpersonal studies and it is certain to become a classic