Not a typo Sky..just another form of psychology..

Found some info below.. Thank you for posting this thread..it does cause one(s) to pause and reflect on different modalities of treatment...and Welcome..

BEHAVIORISM: Including cognitive-behavioral approaches

Perhaps the biggest difference between behaviorism and transpersonal psychology is that behaviorism focuses only on the observable and measurable and therefore excludes the subtle and subjective and rejects the study of consciousness (the eye of flesh versus the eye of contemplation).

Behavioral models focus on instinctual conditioning and lower-level needs such as survival and safety, and have no acknowledgment of positive values such as love, bliss, awe, etc.

However, many transpersonal methods can be understood from a behavioral model. In his chapter in Boorstien, Daniel Goleman suggested that meditation is natural global self-desensitization. One becomes less reactive to one's own inner world by learning to simply witness the flow of consciousness. Furthermore, many spiritual traditions focus on ethical behavior as fundamental to spiritual growth.

With cognitive-behavioral models, there is interest in the surface level of subjectivity, self-talk or automatic thoughts, conceptualized as the intermediaries of behavior. The focus in therapy is changing these thoughts or self-talk which express one's beliefs and perceptions.

Many transpersonal approaches are cognitive, focusing on changing perceptions such as who you think you are. There is a significant difference, however. Cognitive approaches focus on replacing one thought, belief, or form of self-talk with another (I'm bad to I'm OK). Transpersonal approaches focus on not identifying with any of the self-talk, not repressing or judging thoughts but simply witnessing them and being identified with something larger. If we can watch and change our thoughts, this must not be who we are.