Transpersonal Experience in Integral Psychotherapy. Presentation at the Congress of the Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League (OPPL). Video

A presentation by integral psychologist Eugene Pustoshkin at the final congress of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League (OPPL), November 5, 2025. The presentation focused on the role of transpersonal experience in Integral Psychotherapy and Integral Counselling.

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💡 Integral psychotherapy and Integral psychocorrection are based on the practical application of the comprehensive integral approach (AQAL approach) developed by Ken Wilber and colleagues (and applied to more than 100 disciplines of human activity) to the field of therapy and counseling.

Integral psychotherapy can take both medical and non-medical (psychological and psychocorrectional) forms . This report focuses on the latter type of psychological therapy (non-medical psychocorrection within a private counseling practice), but similar ideas can also be applied to the former (medical psychotherapy).

Two important parameters of integral psychotherapy are the use of a biopsychosocial-cultural matrix (first-, second-, and third-person methods; contexts of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, and interobjectivity) and relevant levels of complexity, or altitudes, of the subjects’ consciousness and their relationships (taking into account the full spectrum of mental development ). The dynamics of states of consciousness , personality types and interpersonal relationships, and uneven mental development across different functions and developmental lines (multiple intelligences) are also considered.

Advances in transpersonal research have established the critical importance of transformative spiritual, or transpersonal, experiences, which in Integral Psychotherapy can be identified, evoked, analyzed, and enhanced through specialized methods and psychotechniques of contemplative phenomenology. This report will discuss the role of transpersonality and transrationality in integral psychotherapy.

👤 Eugene Pustoshkin

Integral psychologist in private practice. Clinical psychologist, graduate of the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University.

Member of the Presidium of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy (ATPP). Editor-in-Chief of the philosophical and psychological journal Eros and Kosmos.

Co-host (with Tatyana Parfenova ) of programs on integral psychology, psychotherapy, and Ken Wilber's integral AQAL approach; co-teacher of courses on the foundations of Integral Psychotherapy and the Integral AQAL Framework at the Transpersonal Psychology programs of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Russian translator of 10 books by Ken Wilber and numerous articles on the integral approach. Scientific editor of Russian editions of books by Robert Kegan, Otto Scharmer , and Daniel Siegel, published by Mann, Ivanov, and Ferber.

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