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List of Ph.D. Dissertations

This is a list of Ph.D. dissertations that have been completed at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, available from the library. You can also see the Masters' Thesis list.

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Albert, Guy (2004)
Exploring self-transformation through the spiritually positive resolution of mental health crises

Allen, Martin (1989)
A descriptive study of Allenwork: uses of a heightened state of consciousness in energy-body work

Amlani, Alzak (1995)
Diet and psychospiritual development: physiological, psychological, and spiritual changes and challenges associated with lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan, and live food diets

Ammondson, Ingrid (2009)
Beyond coping: transformation in the face of living with nonmalignant chronic pain

Amodeo, John (1981)
The complementary effects of meditation and focusing

Amram, Joseph Yosi (2009)
The contribution of emotional and spiritual intelligence of effective business leadership

Andras, Joan (1993)
A phenomenological investigation of: the decision-process of a woman trusting herself in making a spiritual commitment that is contrary to the wishes of a significant person or persons

Anvar, Paridokht (1985)
Transpersonal treatment workbook: a psychological alternative for abused women

Arana, Denise (2006)
The practice of mindfulness meditation to alleviate symptoms of chronic shyness and social anxiety

Arao-Nguyen, Sophie (1996)
Ways of coming home: Filipino immigrant women's journeys to wholeness

Arquilla, Donald (1984)
Transpersonal dimensions of ego development and object relations: a psychoanalytic perspective

Astarte, Sarah Eva (2009)
Exploring the relationship between self-image and the activation of the archetype of the lover in adult females: an intuitive inquiry

Atchison, Valerie Locke (1998)
Restorative solitude: a heuristic study

Bacon, Gary Thomas (1982)
Evolution in the stream of consciousness: facilitating personal and group transformation in a learning community

Baker, Patricia G. (1987)
Jealousy: dark mirror of the soul: a theoretical study on the origins, function and healing of obsessive jealousy

Barba, Salvatore (1991)
A descriptive study of an interface process: uses of experiential focusing with transpersonal body therapies

Barnett, Deborah A. (2005)
The effects on the well-being of parents who learn and practice Reiki

Barrett, Kathleen Wise (1996)
A phenomenological study of channeling: the experience of transmitting information from a source perceived as paranormal

Barton, Chayim Douglas (1990)
Jungian psychology and the Mahamudra in Vajrayana Buddhism

Beaird, Gloria Jean (2006)
The experience of transformation in circles of women: development of voice in a sacred setting

Beauchamp, A. Gerard (1982)
Transpersonal management: application of psychological principles in a business setting

Bellotti, Christine (2006)
Contact with nature and the experience of interconnectedness: exploring the natural world as inspiration for community service

Bennett, Harley Michael (2000)
Four dimensions of experiencing Sat-Guru Adi Da's spiritual Heart-Transmission (Hrdaya-Saktipata): phenomenological, lasting-effects, setting (internal and external), and personality set

Bento, William (2006)
A transpersonal approach to somatic psychodiagnostics of personality: a contribution towards its development, dis-ordering tendencies, and embodied transcendence

Berg, Michael Ezra (1986)
The spiritual path and practices in the Hasidic teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: a descriptive study

Blinston, Irene Ann (2005)
When children witness the sacred: spiritual and psychological impacts, lifelong afteraffects, and disclosure aspects of religious apparitional encounters

Boche, Rose (1982)
A model community college program for career and personal development

Bollman-Mathieu, Ingrid Sophia (2009)
A phenomenological exploration of spiritual bypass and its relationship to recovery for alcoholics in Alcoholics Anonymous

Bosholm, Colleen (2004)
The relationship of anxiety and differentiation to reciprocal functioning in a couple system

Boynton, Tracy B. (2000)
The effects of EEG biofeedback on hypnagogia, creativity, and well-being

Bozesan, Mariana (2009)
The making of a consciousness leader in business: an integral approach

Brady, Mark (1991)
Growing a housebuilder: investigating a context for learning and modeling principles of transpersonal psychology

Bragdon, Emma (1987)
A sourcebook for helping people in spiritual emergency

Brandt, Patricia Lee (2007)
Nonmedical support of women during childbirth: the spiritual meaning of birth for doulas

Brannon, Holly (2003)
Chronic physical pain and psychosocial-spiritual suffering: a holistic perspective

Brater, William F. (1987)
The infant and the saint: a developmental comparison

Brent, Belinda Price (1994)
A quantitative and descriptive study of distinct and self-consistent attentional styles and their relation to Enneagram typology

Briscoe, Gwen Oakes (1987)
A search for the essential: an investigation of the essential components of the certificate year of the ITP External Program

Broenen, Paul Thomas (2005)
Transpersonal and cross-cultural adaptability factors in white European American men: a descriptive and correlational analysis

Brooks, Christine (2007)
"Being true to myself": a grounded theory exploration of the process and meaning of the early articulation of intentional childlessness

Bronte, Jacelyn C. (2007)
Divine influence in the change process: a qualitative content analysis of the events of grace assisting people in making a positive change

Brouillette, Gilles (1997)
Reported effects of Holotropic Breathwork: an integrative technique for healing and personal change

Brown, Brooke (1993)
Defining the inner bag lady: an aspect of the feminine as experienced by contemporary women

Brown, Jean (2005)
Inquiry into the understanding and applications of DSM-IV category Religious or Spiritual Problem, V-Code 62.89 by American Psychological Association (APA) psychologists

Brown, Jennifer Rebecca (2007)
Positive menstruation: exploring the attitudes and experiences of women who have a positive relationship their menstruation

Bryant, Penelope Anne (2008)
Heart opening: a heuristic inquiry

Burckhardt, Jeanne (1990)
Photodrama: a therapeutic intervention to assist subpersonality integration

Burdge, Sarah (2006)
The relationship between spirituality and peace activism: phenomenological inquiry into the experience of peace activists in Israel

Burke, Patricia M. (1983)
Women in transition: therapeutic ritual in the wilderness

Butlein, David Alan (2005)
The impact of spiritual awakening on psychotherapy: a comparison study of personality traits, therapeutic worldview, and client experience in transpersonal, non-transpersonal and purportedly awakened psychotherapists

Caldwell, Philipa Ann Redlich (2008)
Putting cancer into words: stories as medicine for women attending the Healing Journeys Conference

Caldwell, Rebecca Skye (2003)
An exploration of the unique experience of survivors of gynecological cancer: sexuality and body image

Callaghan, Michael P. (2008)
A study of the effectiveness of distant healing in alleviating symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression

Carey, John Timothy (2005)
An inquiry into the psychological, spiritual, and cultural conflicts experienced by some Western practitioners of Buddhism

Carlson, Cara Lynn (2009)
On the rim of the cauldron: a community based approach to a scared feminine tradition

Carlock, Susan Ellen (2003)
The quest for true joy in union with God in mystical Christianity: an intuitive inquiry study

Caro, Christina Marina (2007)
Entering the Abyss: a heuristic self-search and organic inquiry into the experience and transformational potential of existential grief

Cary, Peggy (2003)
The self-perceived experience of multiplicity as an ordinary psychological state

Castagna, Margo Elaine (1995)
Women's rites of passage: a menopause initiation ritual based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone: quantification of self-actualization and self-esteem attributes

Chang, Ima Chin (1998)
Chinese transpersonal education: effects on high school teachers and general public adults in Taiwan

Chernow, Justin Robert (2009)
The blessing of a curse: an examination of growth and transformation from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Childs, Kay Jeanine King (2008)
Telling women’s stories: women’s experiences of being in established relationships in which the men developed erectile dysfunction

Chris-Rotimi, Babalola (2008)
A transpersonal perspective on marital infidelity

Churchill, Margaret A. (2006)
The psycho-spiritual process of weight management: a qualitative inquiry

Cioflica, Dea Michaela (2000)
The sacred search for voice: an organic inquiry into the creative mirroring process of collage and story

Clark, Jaysen M. (2008)
The San Pedro Long Dance: transpersonal aspects of a contemporary entheogenic ritual

Clements, Jennifer (1992)
An investigation of the modern day vision quest as a transformative spiritual experience

Coburn, Merry (2006)
Walking home: women's transformative experiences in the wilderness of the Appalachian Trail

Cochran, Margaret Ann (2004)
The impact of recorded encounters with a ghost or haunting: an examination of 12 experiences

Cohn, Debra Ann (2009)
Kehillah Kedoshah: the experience of Jewish sacred community among 12 Jews who belong to liberal worship communities

Cole, Phyllis M. (1987)
Attention: a transdisciplinary framework

Coleman, Becky (2000)
Women, weight, and embodiment: an intuitive inquiry into women's psycho-spiritual process of healing obesity

Coleman, Denver (1993)
A study of the relationships between coping strategies and cognitive flexibility

Corrin, Denis D. (1989)
Superordinate goals and unitive consciousness: an integration of social and transpersonal psychology

Cortale, Maria Sephos (2004)
A grounded theory exploration into the process of integrating subjective anomalous experiences

Costeines, Michael Damian (2009)
What enlightenments means: a qualitative study of nondual consciousness as experienced by teachers of nondual mysticism

Cougar, Michael (2005)
An investigation of personal transformations and psychoactive plant use in syncretic ritual ceremonies in a Brazilian church

Cox, Ruth M. (1999)
Web of wisdom: a field study of a virtual learning community

Crafton, Danielle Lee (1996)
Transpersonal orientation and job satisfaction

Cravens, Martha (2009)
How psychotherapists use metaphor to describe their role

Culberson, Mary John Cobb (1982)
The relationship between transpersonal symbols: dreams and tarot

Curley, Steven James (2009)
Psychological and spiritual traits in adults born via labor cesarean section

Dandurand, Douglas E. (2001)
Implications of mandated celibacy for the psychospiritual development of Roman Catholic clergy: a qualitative inquiry

Davila, Susanna (1979)
A transpersonal approach for language and social/emotional development in autistic children

Dawn, Carolyn May (2003)
The surviving twin: exploring the psychological, emotional, and spiritual impacts of having experienced a death at or before birth

Deliman, Tracy (1989)
Eastern religion for Western people: a phenomenological inquiry into the experience of Tibetan Buddhist practices in the lives of six western people

Demetrios, Patricia Ellerd (1983)
The construction and projection of experience: the transpersonal perspective

Dennehy, Virginia (1987)
A descriptive study of bodywork and spiritual experience in process-oriented psychotherapy

Dowdall, Samantha (1998)
Roots of the spirit: interrelationships among ecological actions and attitudes, nature-related exceptional human experiences, spirituality, and well-being

Dufrechou, Jay P. (2002)
Coming home to nature through the body: an intuitive inquiry into experiences of grief, weeping or other deep emotions in response to nature

Elfer, John Paul (2009)
When Eros is a god: cultivating the ecstatic potentials of sexuality as transpersonal development

Ellison-Cole, L. Louanne (2003)
Focusing with adolescents: discerning self-identity and cultivating self-determination

Esbjörn, Ritu Janice (2006)
When horses heal: a qualitative inquiry into equine facilitated psychotherapy

Esbjörn, Vipassana Christine (2003)
Spirited flesh: an intuitive inquiry exploring the body in contemporary female mystics

Escoffon, Diane (1994)
Synchronicity or meaningful coincidences: quantification of feeling states, circumstances and attributing causes ; and an experiment with "synchronicity incubation"

Ethridge, Carolyn Frances (1996)
Using past-life regression as a tool to reduce feelings of hopelessness in individuals who experience suicidal ideation

Ettling, Dorothy (1994)
A phenomenological study of the creative arts as a pathway to embodiment
in the personal transformation process of nine women

Evans, Christine Louise (1999)
The nature and meaning of creative self discovery in adult life: a sacred and heuristic inquiry into the lives of thirteen women

Fagen, Nancy Lou (1995)
Elaborating dreams through creative expressions: experiences, accompaniments and perceived effects

Farina, Susanna (2006)
Journeys to wholeness: a multicultural study of integration as a mode of acculturation in first generation immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area

Fehrer, Frederick Christian (2002)
The awareness response: a transpersonal approach to reducing maladaptive emotional reactivity

Ferber, Rosine (2005)
The psychotherapeutic and transpersonal aspects of the art and practice of hand knitting: a women's study

Ferguson, Elizabeth (2001)
Mutual hypnosis: an exploratory multiple-case study

Fisher, Charles Legate (1992)
Self-acceptance as a criterion of self-esteem: effects of a transpersonally oriented alternative high school curriculum

Fisher, Jan (1996)
Dance as a spiritual practice: a phenomenological and feminist investigation of the experience of being-movement

Fisher, Janet K. (2006)
Adult daughters of incest survivors: exploring the transgenerational legacy of trauma

FitzMedrud, Eric Jonathan (2009)
The correlates of playfulness in adults

Flett, Mary L. (1998)
Aging and values: a descriptive study of transpersonal values in individuals between the ages of 65 and 95

Forbes, Julie (1999)
Business people who meditate: the impact of the practice on their experience in the workplace

Fisher, Janet K. (2006)
Adult daughters of incest survivors: exploring the transgenerational legacy of trauma

Forman, Mark David (2004)
Applied Wilberian theory: a model of integral psychotherapy with case studies

Franklin, Loretta (1979)
A transpersonal approach to the successful female entrepreneur

Freeman, Michael (2004)
The impact of inherited wealth: a psychological and spiritual inquiry

Fullerton, Robert J. (2002)
Racial wounding and its role in psycho-spiritual integration and transformation: African American elders sit in council

Galloway, Christina Marie (2005)
The transpersonal implications of the experience of flow as a transformative practice

Gauthier, Julie Audette (2003)
Midlife journeys of transvaluation and meeting the feminine through heroic descent: an organic inquiry with 10 men and 8 women

Gay, Elizabeth Kent (1984)
New wineskins: transformation in and with small-scale organizations

Gaylinn, Daniel Laurence (2009)
Media guidance: exploring three methods of delivering guided relaxation on the symptoms of psychological stress with adolescents

Gaynor, Dana (1999)
Changes in cognitive structure associated with experiences of spiritual transformation

George, Vocata Sue (1986)
The history of the Goddess and the transpersonal significance of her decline and re-emergence in the West

Giffin, Martin D. (1982)
Measuring the effect of a self-awareness program on the self-concept of first grade students

Giles, Sophie Parker (2000)
The unnested woman: an investigation of dreams of midlife women who have experienced divorce from a long-term mate

Godbe, Roberta Brody (1985)
Healing with quartz crystals: an exploratory study of nine crystal healers' beliefs and practices

Goff, David D. (1992)
Communitas: an exploratory study of the existential and transpersonal dimensions of a psychological sense of community as found in the Community Building WorkshopTM

Goldman, Adina Leah (2002)
The long-term effects of energetic healing on psychological depression and self-perceived stress

Goldstein, Elisha David (2006)
Cultivating sacred moments: implications on well-being and stress

Goldstein, Stefanie Nassif (2006)
The exploration of spirituality and identity status in adolescence

Golin, Cynthia Louise (2005)
An application of the spiral dynamics integral model to business consulting

Goodman, Mary Fahn (2008)
The transpersonal body: engaging embodied research to generate a mind-body theory of human transpersonal development

Gopfert, Caryl Reimer (1999)
Student experiences of betrayal in the Zen Buddhist teacher/student relationship

Gozdz, Kazimierz (1999)
A transpersonal heuristic inquiry into a learning organization undergoing transformation

Graham, Marilyn (2009)
Heuristic inquiry into the experience of the self-guided writing process of 12 women with a history of mother-daughter conflict

Greene, S. Kimble (2008)
Grace in small packages: an exploration of childhood spirituality

Greenwell, Bonnie Lynne (1988)
Kundalini: a study of eastern and western perspectives and experiences and their implications for transpersonal psychotherapists

Gross, Diana (1994)
Harvesting the wisdom of the elders: a study of the lives of seven exemplary aged women

Haller, Jeffrey Scott (1988)
A case history: sensory/motor education and transpersonal psychology: applications of the Feldenkrais Method, Aikido and neurolinguistic programming with St. Joseph's University basketball team

Harrison, Christopher Thomas (2009)
The developmental implications of image theory in inciting a population to war: a content analysis of Bush administration discourse leading to the Iraq war

Hart, Jonathan Agamemnon (1988)
Hermes and gay men: a mythological and transpersonal study

Hatt, Sean Patrick (2009)
ADHD in black and white: a comparative inquiry in narrative and photographs examining the social construction of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in poor African American and affluent white families

Heery, Brian (2003)
Awakening spirit in the body: a heuristic exploration of peak or mystical experiences in the practice of aikido

Hendricks, Kathlyn (1982)
Transpersonal body therapy: a synthesis of three theories and practices

Hennigan, Kari Ann (2005)
Connection to nature and implications for body image in women: an organic inquiry

Hewett, Michael C. (2001)
"A ripple in the water": the role of organic inquiry in developing an integral approach in transpersonal research: presented as a one-act play and video

Higgins, Jessica L. (2009)
Conscious intimate relationship as a psychospiritual practice

Higgins, Randy (2001)
Renewal through rest and sleep - experiences and challenges: a heuristic inquiry

Hill, Aurora Georganne Mero (2005)
Joy revisited: an exploratory study of the experience of joy through the memories of the women of one Native American Indian community

Hill, Richard F. (2003)
Mountains and mysticism: climbing in thin air and transformation

Hitchcock-Bridges, Joanne (2009)
Dreams of trauma in Dissociative Identity Disorder: transcendence and transformation

Hlava, Patty (2009)
Exploring the lived experience of gratitude in couples relationships

Hoefman, Jan R. (1988)
The Star Process: a study of transformative techniques in a structured short term psychotherapy

Hoffman, Sharon Lynne (2003)
Living stories: an intuitive inquiry into storytelling as a collaborative art form to effect compassionate connection

Holbrook, Lisbeth Jane (2008)
Psychological characteristics of altered states of consciousness experienced during transcendent sex

Hong, Lyndon W. (1993)
Evaluating a course in spiritual awakening: changes in POI scores and self-report inventories

Horton, Darcy Ann (1998)
Adolescent daughters and the impact and meaning of the loss of their mothers to breast cancer

Hutcheon, Dorothy (1979)
The ecology of conception: a transpersonal approach to family planning

Hutchins, Robert Lawrence Rosser (1984)
The inner story: psychological patterning as revealed in dreams, imagery and sandplay

Hutter, Denise (1999)
Weaving the fabric of culture: the emergence of personal and collective wisdom in young adults participating in a wilderness rite of passage

Janssen, Louis (1980)
Transpersonal psychology: a Christian perspective

Jaqua, Stephen C. (1987)
A working proposal for a transpersonally-oriented residential secondary school

Jassy, Loic (1985)
An exploratory study of breathwork and the heart center

Javurek, Alan J. (1987)
The experience of reconciliation with father among men at midlife: a Jungian perspective

Javurek, Frances Schutt (1985)
Jin Shin Do acupressure as a tool for stress management: a teaching module for hospital oncology nurses

Judy, Dwight H. (1984)
Healing the male soul: a mythic journey into western male consciousness

Judy, Ruth H. (1984)
A journey through infertility: a mythological perspective

Kaplan, Jennifer C. (2003)
Breaking a leg without breaking the spirit: an exploration of actors' psychospirituality

Kaplan, Mark Allan (2005)
The experience of divine guidance: a qualitative study of the human endeavor to seek, receive, and follow guidance from a perceived divine source

Kardaras, Nicholas (2007)
Beyond reason: transrational contemplation and Greek mystical philosophy

Kardos, Irina V. (2008)
Goddess art process: phenomenological inquiry into clinical mechanisms

Katz, Shawn H. (1999)
Healing the father-son relationship: a qualitative inquiry into adult reconciliation

Kennedy, Carole Byberg (1994)
Menopause, a multi-dimensional passage: an exploratory study of the relationship of a woman's psychological type, coping resources and coping strategies to her experience of symptoms during this phase of life

Kershenstine, Timothy A., Jr. (2009)
Stepping into the shoes of schizophrenia: guided imagery as an empathy and anti-stigma training toll for mental health providers

Kester, Nicola (1985)
Meeting the angel: the annunciation as a model of personal surrender

Knighton, Edmund (2009)
The lived experience of space through movement: a phenomenological study of spatial awareness

Kranz, Eugene Edwin (2008)
Twelve men’s experiences of feeling deeply connected with nature

Kueppers, William G. (2004)
The practice and dynamics of authenticity: an organic research study

Kuhar, Robert (2005)
An exploration of the impact of education and engagement in science on scientists' metaphysical beliefs and spirituality

Kuhn, Rosemary Elizabeth (2001)
Sailing as a transformational experience

Kwon, Hee Soon (2001)
Personality and spiritual transformation process promoted by spiritual exercises in the Wesleyan tradition: formulation, assessment, and effects

Langley, Elizabeth Ann (1988)
Body-integrated psychotherapy: a transpersonal approach

Lanier, Sue (1991)
A comparison of two psychological states: the near-death experience and the death experience in regression therapy

Lazarus, Irene Sheiner (1985)
From Maslow to Muhammad: Maslow's description of self-actualization delineated in the life of Muhammad

Lee, Magdalena (2000)
A comparison of transpersonal and physical stress reduction techniques in preparing students for entrance examinations in a Taiwan school

Lehrman, Eric M. (1992)
The psychospiritual moratorium: an investigation of the dynamics of the psychospiritual growth in mid-life

Lewis, Meghan Elizabeth (2000)
Artists as midwives in the cultural rebirth of contemporary goddess iconography: an ecofeminist and heuristic inquiry

Lewis, Wendy Summers (1987)
Linkages: helping the frail elderly and disabled stay at home in San Mateo County

Light, Susan Eileen (1985)
Empowerment, hope, and activism in the nuclear age: a study of children and parents

Lincoln, Robert L. (1983)
The relationship between depth psychology and protoanalysis

Little, Anne (2009)
Returning to the mother of us all: the transcendent sexual experiences of 69 women

Loffer, Shirley Lyn (1999)
Returning to ourselves: women thriving with chronic illness

Longsdorff, JoAnna (1984)
The effects of dream discussion groups on transpersonal growth and development with people 60 years of age and older

Loos, Linda K. (1997)
Sitting in council: an ecopsychological approach to working with stories in wilderness rites of passage

Lounsberry, Joyce (2001)
The power of the drum: a multi-cultural journey into spiritual transformations and mind-body healing experienced by eight professional women drummers

Lueth, Deborah L. (1980)
A phenomenological study of expanded time perception

Lynch, Kelly Sue (2002)
Each age a lens: a transpersonal perspective of Emily Dickinson's creative process

Maas, Cliff (2003)
Sense of humor and spirituality as correlates of psychological well-being in men with and without Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Macecevic, Julie Peters (2008)
Embodied transcendental empathy: a phenomenological study of psychotherapists’ transpersonal embodied experiences

Magnussen, Sandra (2003)
The effect of the spiritual practice of Tibetan Buddhist guru yoga on the clinical practice of psychotherapy

Maher, Mary Catherine (1984)
Energies of humor as perceived within the chakra framework

Maier, Elizabeth Hilary (2008)
Narrative scrapbooking: empathic facilitation of cocreated stories for bereaved and nonspecific adults in supplemental therapeutic support groups

Mandelbaum, Debora Denise (2006)
The therapeutic container in sandplay therapy: an exploration of the psycho-spiritual space

Manning, Marilyn Jakad (1984)
Spiritually-based marriage: a transpersonal model

Manos, Catherine (2007)
Female artists and nature: an intuitive inquiry into transpersonal aspects of creativity in the natural environment

Mariano Brignolo, Luis (2007)
Audio-visual stimulation and mindfulness meditation training: the effects of digital meditation on attention, electro-cortical activity, and well being

Martin-Neville, Dorothy A. (2007)
The psycho/spiritual correlates of physical disorder: an expasion of research in mind/body medicine

Marquez, N. Anne (1999)
Healing through the remembrance of the pre-and perinatal: a phenomenological investigation

Martire, Ginger Collins. (2006)
Menstrual consciousness development: an organic inquiry into the development of a psycho-spiritually rewarding menstrual relationship

Masluk, Todd Joseph (1997)
Reports of so-called "peak" experiences during a neurotechnology-based training program

Maxfield, Melinda C. (1990)
Effects of rhythmic drumming on EEG and subjective experience

May, Marie (2004)
The effects of a self acceptance training emphasizing compassion and mindfulness skills with inner experiences

Mayland, Elaine Loomis (1985)
The Rosen Method of bodywork

McCulloch, Allister Scott (2006)
Spirituality in business: an exploration into three exemplar for-profit organizations, using qualitative and quantitative measures

McGuire, Karly Rebecca (2009)
The issues faced by caretakers of comatose individuals

McIver, Katherine S. (2001)
Spirit into form: the experience of clay as a spiritual practice

McKay-Riddell, Valentine (2006)
Perils, pitfalls, and promise: mentored earthbased rites of passage for adolescent girls facing life challenges in a multicultural setting

McLean, Mary (1989)
Love has no enemy: aikido as a system for training the sacred warrior

McLennan Tajiri, Natasha Anne (2009)
Attentiveness to God: contemplative presence in spiritual direction

Medearis, Helga Biermer (1985)
Practitioners' experience with Jin Shin Jyutsu: a descriptive study

Medrano-Marra, Marianela (2007)
Empowering Dominican women: the divine feminine in Taino spirituality

Michaels, Karen Ingrid (2007)
The courage to listen to calling: transcending personality fear patterns and false personality in order to manifest one's mission

Mihalache, Gabriela (2009)
Transformative forgiveness: a heuristic study of the self-transforming nature of becoming forgiving following traumatic events

Miller, Bonnie Jane (1985)
A participant observer's description of meaningful work in a small company: the transformational roles of product, organization, people and leader

Mineau, David Leon (1990)
Critical incidents in the timing of the moment of death

Mitchell, Carolyn Finn (2000)
Women and nature: connection to animals and spirit experienced by Celtic-Irish women

Mitchell, Dana L. (1993)
Comparison of affective emotional health attribution, and coping style responses between people with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome and chronic lower back pain

Mitchell, Robert (2007)
My father's heart: an exploration of fathers' influence on their sons' adult romantic relationships as defined by attachment theory

Mitchell, Sarah Larios (2005)
The effects of journal-writing and story-listening on world assumptions, health, and religiousness following the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001

Mixter, Alexandra Kittredge (2009)
An exploration of adult playfulness in relationship to personality: a correlational study

Moore, Phyllis Boswell (1989)
No other Gods: prolegomena toward a Jungian hermeneutic of the biblical story for a transbiblical age

Moorehead, Patricia (2001)
The experience of transformation in Christian mysticism: interviews with nine Roman Catholic contemplatives

Morrill, Barbara J. (1994)
Quest for wholeness: the individuation process of seven African American women: a case study

Murphy, Marjorie C. (2000)
Darkness visible implicit and explicit attitudes toward race, gender, and sexual orientation

Nayak, Susan Jennifer (2004)
Enneagram dreams: personality styles reflected in dream content

Netzer, Dorit (2008)
Mystical poetry and imagination: inspiring transpersonal awareness of spiritual freedom

Newton, Susan J. (1996)
Exploring the interstices: the space between in the body/mind disciplines
of Aikido and fencing

Nolan, Nirmegha Margaret (1984)
The nature and the process of the human will

Norris, Zora (1997)
Towards a cross-cultural view of health attribution: Argentina, Japan, and the United States of America: correlation and factor analysis

Nosal, Barbara (2002)
A transpersonal approach to relapse prevention: an exploration of the
determinants of relapse during a period of long-term sobriety

Nygard, Erick Anders (2008)
Listening to the Sage: the experience of learning from the Salvia Divinorum altered state

O'Laoire, Sean (1993)
An experimental study of the effects of intercessory prayer-at-a-distance
on self-esteem, anxiety and depression

Opitz, Trudy (1994)
The differential effects of a film assisted and non film assisted transpersonally oriented psychology curriculum on the self-esteem of adolescents

Ormond, Charlotte Helen (2007)
The effects of emotional intelligence and team effectiveness of a newly formed corporate team learning the Enneagram

Page, Heidi (2005)
The impact of ego development on spiritual construct among Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian renunciates

Palmer, Genie Therese (1999)
Disclosure and assimilation of exceptional human experiences: meaningful, transformative, and spiritual aspects

Paquet, Nicole (1997)
The mask ritual: an ancient path of transformation for modern times

Park, Russell D. (1991)
Spiritual emergencies: a quantitative and descriptive examination with an emphasis on Kundalini, and the role of ego

Payne, Bonnie Ann (1982)
Transpersonal family treatment program for chronic pain patients

Perry, Allison (2009)
Does a unitive mystical experience affect authenticity? An intuitive inquiry of ordinary Protestants

Phelon, Cortney Reynolds (2001)
Healing presence: an intuitive inquiry into the presence of the psychotherapist

Philbin, Kathleen Ann (2008)
A therapeutic model for grief and bereavement: exploring the efficacy of a transpersonal, multidimensional protocol

Pitsch, John Paul (2009)
Reports of group differences in narcissism within the Buddhist practice of Satipatthana Vipassana mediation: experiences of self-centeredness, grandiosity, and need for mirroring/admiration, and emptiness

Priest, Chako (1987)
Self-awareness during grief as a facilitator of grief resolution

Prone, Denis John (2002)
A study of the effects of learning and practicing the Radiance Technique® (Authentic Reiki®) on the quality of life of people living with Type 2 Diabetes and on long-term practitioners

Prosise, John Bruce (1987)
Psychological structure of the complex partial ictus: a phenomenological study of the seizure experience

Pyle, W. Leon (1988)
A model for the introduction of transpersonal goals into business

Quevedo, Deborah J. (2009)
Psychospiritual integration of an Ayahuasca retreat experience

Raheem, Aminah (1984)
A transpersonal integration of the whole person through the meridian and chakra energy system

Raley, Sherry (2006)
The experience of healing in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music

Raphael, Francesca Barbara (1998)
The experience of seven women moving from long-term emotional abuse by an intimate partner to a path of self-reclamation

Regedanz, Krista Elizabeth (2008)
Job burnout recovery

Rich, Bryan William (2005)
Direct knowing, direct contact: a heuristic study of psychospiritual and transformational elements in experiences unmediated by discursive thought

Rickards, Diane E. (2006)
Illuminating feminine cultural shadow with women espionage agents and the Dark Goddess

Rieder, Carol Jean (1982)
Transpersonal experience as a healing resource in coping with cancer

Riordan, Laura (2002)
Bringing the wilderness home: integrating the transformative aspects of adventure into everyday life

Rode, Maja Apolonia (2000)
What is beauty?: a living inquiry for the mind and heart

Rogers, Wendy L. (1996)
A heuristic inquiry into loss of fertility that occurred during the childbearing years as experienced by eight women

Rominger, Ryan A. (2004)
Exploring the integration of the aftereffects of the near-death experience: an intuitive and artistic inquiry

Rooth, Thomas Samuel (2008)
The soul of the life cycle: a transpersonal psychology of adult lifespan development

Rosequist, Lisa Ann (2009)
The experience of surrender for women in non-metastatic breast cancer undergoing a Psycho-Spiritual Integration Transformation (PSIT) intervention

Ross, Nicholas Anthony (1999)
Children living with the death of a parent: an exploration of bereaved children's experiences and perceptions of support and connection

Rossie, Karen M. (2002)
Songs on the mind as messages from the unconscious

Rothenberg, Donald Ellis (1987)
Transpersonal aspects of video in art and therapy

Ruttenberg, Brenda Haber (2000)
The role of paranormal experiences in healing, growth, and transformation: a study in clinical parapsychology

Ruzek, Nicole Amity (2004)
Transpersonal Psychology's historical relationship to mainstream American psychology

Sabzaali, Jamal Saira (2007)
Leaving my mother's house: Kjoha Ismaili women and university

Sachs, Barbara Sue (1987)
The training of a transpersonal therapist

Sackett, Brian E. (1998)
Connected responses: non-dissociated responses to emotional pain

Safken, Annick (1998)
Sufi stories as vehicles for self-development: exploration, using in-depth interviews, of the self-perceived effects of the study of Sufi stories

Saft, Kimberley (2007)
An exploratory study: transpersonal experiences and empowerment

Sarmiento, Fernando A. (1984)
Bringing the spirit back to work: a transpersonal approach to organizational development

Saunders, Lyn A. (2004)
Past-life recall: a phenomenological investigation of facilitated and nonfacilitated recall experiences and their contributions to psychospiritual development

Schellenberg, Jean Agnes (1997)
Transpersonal experiences and practices of women who are healing childhood sexual abuse

Schlarb, Craig W. (2004)
The nature of childhood peak experiences and their nonassimilation into the developing identity: a heuristic inquiry

Schwedner, Diane Therese (2003)
Messengers from the soul: women's shoes as instruments of psychological and spiritual growth

Scull, Charles C. (1989)
Existential themes in interviews with Vietnam veterans

Sears, Jerre J. (1999)
The experience of men in the second half of life having an awareness of deep change coupled with a significant dream

Secura, Rajaishvar A. (1984)
Dances of universal peace: a transpersonal practice in the Sufi tradition

Seeley, Robin (2000)
Sacred callings: the process of moving into vocation at midlife as seen through story and reflection in a council of nine women

Sehrbrock, Joachim (2007)
A comparison of treatment planning conducted by integrally informed and non-integrally informed psychotherapists

Sell, Ingrid (2000)
Third gender: a qualitative study of the experience of individuals who identify as being neither man nor woman

Shepperd, Alexis Eileen (2006)
The experience of being deeply moved: an intuitive inquiry

Shertock, Tania (1994)
An existential-phenomenological study of woman's experience of feeling able to move toward and accomplish a meaningful and challenging goal in a Latin American cultural context

Shields, Lisa (1995)
The experience of beauty, body image and the feminine in three generations of mothers and daughters

Sholem, Jane (1999)
Listening to the labyrinth: an organic and intuitive inquiry

Sidle, Leslie (1997)
Happily ever after - again: love relationships of divorced women at midlife

Simpson, Virginia A. (1992)
A study of the relationship between psychosocial variables and long-term adaptation of bereaved parents

Slakey, Douglas Michael (2007)
Mirror gazing imagery and meaning

Smith, Marita Catharine (Maggie) (1998)
Journeying home as partners: successful long-term marriages of partners in alcoholism recovery

Smith, William Michael (1988)
A comparison of the breathwork approaches of Stan Grof and Gay Hendricks

Snider, Gheri Terezas (1995)
The identification and comparison of self-esteem profiles for a select group of registered staff nurses, nurse managers, associate degree nursing faculty, and nursing students

Song, Yungsook (2008)
Exploring the spiritual development model of Mahayana Seon (Zen) practice from the perspective of transpersonal development and healing

Sowerby, David Francis (2001)
The light of inner guidance: a heuristic study of the recognition and interpretation of intuition

Spencer, James L. (1987)
A new model for psychotherapy based on the seven-chakra system of Tantric Yoga

Spencer, Linda Bushell (1995)
The transpersonal and healing dimensions of painting: life reviews of ten artists who have experienced trauma

Spurr, John L. (1989)
Co-dependence: a process-oriented developmental approach

Stefik, Barbara S. (2000)
An exploratory study of the effects of practicing Tibetan dream yoga four foundations on waking life awareness and dreams

Steigman, Ivana (2007)
"Journey into the numinous": a grounded theory exploration of the stages and meaning of death awareness development

Stein, Elizabeth A. (1996)
The effects of a sustained mandala making practice on the self-schema of middle school students

Steinbach Humphrey, Sandra (2004)
Body/mind/spirit integration and healing Hepatitis C: is spiritual integration a factor in treatment choice and efficacy?

Stephan, Barbara Beard (2004)
Synesthesia and dyslexia: implications for increased understanding

Stitz, Jenny (2004)
Intimacy and differentiation in couples at postconventional levels of ego development

Stovich, Raymond J. (1983)
Puer and senex in senescence: an archetypal/transpersonal inquiry in gerontology

Strachan, Alan James (1992)
The dreaming body: a case study of the relationship between chronic body symptoms and childhood dreams according to process-oriented psychology

Sulmeyer, Stephen Harris (2001)
The meaning of meaning: a phenomenological and transpersonal inquiry into what really matters

Sungy, Charmaine C. (2001)
Shamanic journey access to others' incubated dream content: participant characteristics associated with recognition of the target, and paired narrative thematic overlap in imagery and symbolism

Tajiri, Takanari (2009)
The effects of the mirror in the psychomanteum process on thoughts, emotions, self efficacy, consciousness, and creativity for finding solutions to ordinary life issues

Taylor, Nora (1996)
Women's experience of the descent into the underworld: the path of Inanna: a feminist and heuristic inquiry

Taylor, Rosemary Elaine (2003)
A heuristic study of the experiential, transformative process of long-term panic attacks and associated altered states of consciousness: toward a transpersonal perspective

Tener, Barbara J. (1984)
Transpersonal treatment program for bulimics: preliminary results

Topp, Elizabeth Margretha (2006)
Presence-based coaching: the practice of presence in relation to goal-derected activity

Trakhtenberg, Ephraim C.
Self-Perceived Quality of Life Scale: theoretical framework and development

Trudeau, Candice (1993)
A comparison of psychotherapists and financial consultants in their assessment and treatment of financial conflicts

Trudeau, John R. (1998)
The attention factor: a single photon emission tomography study of brain activity related to focused attention

Tsadeek, Ayelet (2006)
A subjective exploration of the value of resistance and its multidimensional and holistic nature: a humanistic-existential and transpersonal investigation

Umlauf, Barbara C. (1984)
The use of story as metaphor in transpersonal psychotherapy

Unthank, Katherine W. (2007)
"Shame on you": exploring the deep structure of posttrauma survial

Upton, James Morgan (1998)
Measures of personality and transpersonality: correlations between the "Big Five" factors of the NEO PI-R and five transpersonal inventories

Van Deventer, Danielle W. (2005)
Transformational volunteerism: exploring service as an integral component of transpersonal psychology

Van Ness, John H. (1986)
Spiritual aspects of men's midlife career change

Veltrop, Marilyn R. (1999)
Business leaders in transition: an organic inquiry into eight transformational journeys

Vissell, Rami (2004)
Effects of wilderness therapy on youth at risk's concept of self and othe : a deeper understanding of the journey

Waite, Dawn-Sophia J. (1986)
The archetype and myth of Sophia: an exploration of feminine wisdom-consciousness

Waldron, Joan L. (1997)
The timeless moment: a study of transcendent experience through a focus on the nature and integration of the noetic quality of the experience

Walker, Robert Stanton, III (2008)
Integral reading: a hermeneutic-phenomenological study of reading differently as suggested in Shi Aurobindo’s Letter on Yoga

Walters, Robert H. (1989)
Projective identification and the vicissitudes of the self: from fragmentation to cohesion

Wang, Louis Shiuh-chong (2000)
Using zero-balancing to reveal the connection between physical and psycho/spiritual qualities

Wannamaker, Anett Botolfsen (1989)
A psychosynthesis study of Agnes Sanford's practice and theology of prayer healing

Warner, Arielle Samantha (2006)
Exploration of psychological and spiritual well-being of women with breast cancer participating in the Art Of Living program

Watkins, Valeria C. (2000)
African-American women and psychotherapy: exploring behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, and needs

Westra, Teri Ellen (1996)
An exploration of the transpersonal dimensions of pregnancy

White, Frank E. (2002)
The lived-experience of psychospiritual integration: a qualitative study with exemplary psychotherapists who actively integrate spirituality into their practice of psychotherapy

White, Lynn Ward (1985)
A comparative study of Kum Nye relaxation

Williams, Lynn Ann (2000)
Cognition and self-concept as predictors of non-prejudice

Wilson, David Louis (2007)
An exploratory study on the players of Dungeons and Dragons

Wilson, Jennifer Margaret (2009)
An integral inquiry into the early attachment experiences of American Zen Buddhists

Winkler, Brian (1990)
Dream incubation: an experimental inquiry into the process of petitioning dreams for guidance, healing and problem solving

Wist, Natasha (1995)
Women's ways of working: feminine styles of doing and being

Wood, Damon Ray (2009)
Eucatastrophe: rapid recovery from depression precipitated by transformational subjective experience

Wosk, Hana Brook (1983)
A transpersonal approach to relationship

Wosk, Mordehai Marcus J. (1983)
Slavery to freedom: exodus as a process of psychological transformation

Yoslow, Mark (2007)
The pride and price of remembrance: an empirical view of transpersonal post-holocaust trauma and associated transpersonal elements in the third generation

Young, Nancy (1992)
Exceptional love relationships: initial validation of a bonded couple scale

Young, Valerie Lincoln (1983)
Working with death: a trainer's manua

Yi, Kelly Soyoung (2009)
The nature of mindfulness in long-term practitioners and teachers, and its role in well-being

Yue, Paula J. (1995)
Spiritual Mind Treatment (affirmative prayer) and the evolution of consciousness as revealed in instances of healing in Master Practitioners of Religious Science

Zappala, Cirino Riccardo (2007)
Well-being: the correlation between self-transcendence and psychological and subjective well-being

Zed, Liz (2003)
Helpful symbols in fairy tales: a storytelling group employing ancient wisdom to treat depression at midlife

Zenoff, Nancy Robinson (1986)
The mother's experience after the sudden death of a child: personal and transpersonal perspectives

Zephyr, Loraine Halfen (1987)
The complementary function of touch during eidetic image therapy

Zinsmeyer, Mary Catherine (2009)
A study of the spiritual awakening experiences of 12 individuals participating in the 12-Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous

 


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