Rosemarie Anderson, CHTP participating member & ITP Faculty and Alum,
Published in Recent Journal Issue

Palo Alto, CA—The most recent issue (2004, Volume 32, Number 4) of The Humanistic Psychologist features intuitive inquiry, a research method developed at ITP by Rosemarie Anderson, Core Faculty. Dr. Anderson is the guest editor of this special issue. The issue contains case examples of using the method based on dissertation research by four ITP alum.

 Rosemarie Anderson overviews intuitive inquiry as an epistemology of the heart that describes what is and envisions new possibilities for the future through an in-depth process of interpretation. The purpose of the article is to invite researchers unfamiliar with transpersonal concepts to use intuitive inquiry and to blend it with methods they already use.

Cortney R. Phelon (Alum ’01) presents a model of the healing presence of a psychotherapist based on reflections on her own experience of the healing presence of a psychotherapist, an extensive literature review on healing presence in the fields of psychology, nursing, and pastoral care, and group interviews of exemplar psychotherapists.

Jay P. Dufrechou (Alum ’02) explores the experience of grief, weeping, and other deep emotions in response to nature that reveal a process of psycho-spiritual transformation capable of healing the splits between mind and body and humanity and nature. Stories of these experiences are presented in the style of embodied writing.

Sharon Hoffman (Alum ’03) portrays a process of storytelling, known as Living Stories. The story of a woman with breast cancer is told through creative arts in an interactive mixed media gallery exhibit in order to study the possibilities for compassionate connection and transformation in such storytelling.

Vipassana Esbjörn-Hargens (Alum ’03) describes how women mystics of today—those who have devoted most of their lifetime to prayer, meditation, and spiritual service—make sense of the body. For these women, the body serves as a “barometer” where intuition and spiritual changes are enacted.

Rosemarie Anderson, Ph.D.
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
1069 East Meadow Circle
Palo Alto, CA 94303
randerson@itp.edu