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Integrative Approaches to Psychotherapy: Insights from Cultural and Spiritual Psychology

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This chapter focuses on the integrative movement in psychology and psychotherapy. It examines the various initiatives towards making psychology an integrative science as well as the sustained efforts towards integration in the domain of psychotherapy. In this process, the two main imperatives, the first arising from sociocultural contextual factors and the more pragmatic concerns are discussed. Using the Indian context as the anchor, the significance of spiritual and cultural factors in psychotherapy is discussed and an illustrative case study presented. The final section demonstrates how meditative and yogic practices and techniques from the Atharvaveda can be seamlessly combined in the efforts to attain the goal of both an integrative science and a culturally consonant psychotherapy.

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Thapa, K., Ghildyal, P. (2022). Integrative Approaches to Psychotherapy: Insights from Cultural and Spiritual Psychology. In: Tripathi, R., Kar, B.R., Pande, N. (eds) Towards an Integrative Psychological Science. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9565-0_10

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