Describe the common critiques of transpersonal approaches to psychology
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
1. There are potential conflicts between the therapy and the client’s religious views.
2. Some psychologists have indicated that transpersonal experiences represent infantile helplessness, meditation is self-induced catatonia, mystical experience is neurotic regression to union with the breast, and transpersonal ideas are examples of irrational thinking.
3. Transpersonal ideology can be misused to support psychological problems or offensive spirituality.
4. Transpersonal practices offer little help for psychoses and severe neuroses.
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