| As psychology has celebrated the Decade of | | | | contribution to healing and consciousness. |
| Behavior, it is time for a psychological celebration | | | | I propose an integral view to healing trauma, one |
| of the Year of the Whole Person. This paradigm | | | | that incorporates the mind, body, and psyche. |
| shift would take the form of a new holistic | | | | Rather than a top-down or bottoms-up approach |
| perspective on psychology that brought behavior, | | | | to healing, such a process might be viewed as |
| cognition, and consciousness together in a | | | | circular, with movement connecting inner to outer, |
| dialectical relationship. A psychology of the whole | | | | mental to physical, and all to the interactive field |
| person integrates body, mind, and psyche, and | | | | that is in close relationship with another (e.g., |
| embraces a diversity of techniques and | | | | mother-child dyad, and intimate partners), or in |
| approaches to include the imaginal realm. | | | | connection with the universe. |
| Clinicians appear to view the body in three distinct | | | | As depth psychology collaborates with |
| ways: as independent of the mind (physical body), | | | | neuroscience, quantum physics, and metaphysics, |
| integrated with the mind (emotional body), and as | | | | disease and healing can be approached from a |
| a site for symbolic representations of subtle | | | | multi-disciplinary perspective, crossing cultural and |
| (energetic) body. In Western culture, the body is | | | | theoretical boundaries toward a more integrated |
| seen as something to be controlled by the mind. | | | | approach to wholeness. Through my work and |
| Expanding the definition of body from purely | | | | dialogue with the various fields, I wish to |
| somatic, to include the psychological and emotional | | | | encourage and promote a whole-person approach |
| in clinical psychology is the wave of the future. | | | | to healing disease, and offer an integral approach |
| Movement from a mind-body dualism, a split | | | | for psychology, including the mind, body, and |
| reinforced by the field of mental health, toward | | | | psyche's role in healing the body of mental, |
| an integrative approach in healthcare is inevitable. | | | | somatic, and emotional symptoms. |
| It is time for psychology to bring its unique | | | | |