The objective of this Journal of Transpersonal Research is to promote, bring together and disseminate the investigation of transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy, as well as other study subjects related to this field.

Walsh and Vaughan (1982)[1] offer the following definition of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy:

“Transpersonal Psychology has an interest in the expansion of the field of  psychological investigation, including the study of the optimum levels of mental health and psychological wellbeing. It recognizes the potential to experiment with a wide range of states of consciousness, some of which the identity can go further than the usual limits of the ego and personality.”

“Transpersonal psychotherapy includes traditional fields of interests, to which is added the interest in facilitating the growth and awareness beyond traditionally recognized levels of health. The importance of modifications of consciousness and the validity of experience and transcendental identities are affirmed in transpersonal psychotherapy.”

The transpersonal model in psychology is the conceptual representation that is used to describe the nature of human consciousness as it is understood today. This model does not contradict the main anterior models in psychology (behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive and humanist), but it does integrate them and addresses the spiritual dimension of the human being, which has not been sufficiently understood.

Recently, the human being has been conceived as a biological, psychological, social and spiritual being in the health field.  For example, the World Health Organization's (WHO, 1990)[2] definition of  the “spiritual” concept is: “spiritual refers to those aspects of human life that relate to experiences that transcend sensorial phenomenons. It is not the same as “religious”, though for many people the spiritual dimension in their lives includes a religious component. The spiritual aspect of human life can be seen as an integrated component along with physical, psychological and social components. Frequently, it is perceived  as being related to the meaning and the purpose of life[...]”.

Obviously, the spiritual, or transcendental, dimension of the person is innate, universal and intrinsic to itself, meaning that it can be studied and practiced  by multiple current and millennial disciplines. However, in this instance, our approach is psychological in nature, and is given the name ¨transpersonal”.

The objective of this journal is to provide a medium  for the study, investigation, understanding and treatment of this nature of the human being, specifically from the transpersonal psychology perspective and related perspectives.