Words from the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychotherapeutic Narrative (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

“This is an extremely riveting, original book that makes a compelling case for a refreshingly radical understanding and practice of transpersonally oriented psychology. In challenging the tacit assumptions of ‘basic’ psychotherapeutics, transpersonally oriented or otherwise, this text does what most other transpersonal theorizing falls short of doing. That is, it reveals the ways therapeutic taken-for-granted ‘basics’ can work to actually undermine any therapeutic endeavor, as well as presenting an alternative outline of what a more genuine set of ‘soteriological basics’ could look like, both in theory and in practice. In this way, this book opens up an exciting way of thinking about psychotherapy that has not been clearly opened up before.

“This is a pioneering work that will be a fertile source of inspiration and innovation in ‘holistic’ forms of psychology and psychotherapeutics into the twenty-first century.” ― Kenneth Bradford, Clinical Director, Maitri Psychotherapy Institute

“It is a marvelous act of freedom-making, dissolving the constricting fetters of the traditional psychoanalytic view of life’s possibilities and dangers, and strikingly original and creative in its sweep and in its conception of the ultimate goals of human development.” ― Richard D. Mann, University of Michigan

Stuart Sovatsky is Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Clinical Supervisor at John F. Kennedy University, and Director of Kundalini Clinic. He is the author of Passions of Innocence.