Purpose

Program History

Integrative Psychology emphasizes the interdependence of social, cultural, physical, spiritual, and psychological dynamics. Studying well-being from a systems perspective combines traditional healing wisdoms and new paradigms of social evolution. The Center's programs honor diversity by integrating ecological, philosophical, spiritual, aesthetic, cultural, and scientific ways of knowing. It emphasizes psychology's agency in social contexts.

Integrating Contexts

In addition to traditional psychotherapies, Integrative Psychology emphasizes Positive Psychology, which has recently emerged as an effort to address the lifespan development and self actualizing potential of individuals, rather than focusing on a client's dysfunction.

The Training Program

This collaboration between the CSPP training program and the Center for Integrative Psychology is unique in that it represents the best of both worlds. A candidate with an integrative orientation can connect with exemplars, mentors, research projects, and representatives from active organizations. Professionals already in the field looking for talent, energy, and smart ideas can connect with Integrative professionals-in-training.

Program History

Psychology in the postmodern era requires a willingness to see “truth” in different psychological traditions, different value systems, different perceptions of reality, different forms of relationships, different spiritual paths--and to see this diversity as enhancing all our lives. A study of interdependent systems inclusive of these diverse ideas about identity, values, and health, and psychological practice describes an Integrative Psychology. The Clinical Psy.D. Program in San Diego provides innovative ways of knowing and training for psychological practice. All our candidates take two required Integrative Psychology courses, ensuring, for one thing, that all our graduates have pondered and written a credo to consider personal and professional moral agency. They will have considered the clinical implications of an Integrative philosophy, which proposes that multiple selves discourse multiple realities, with all systems interdependent.

The Center's Public Face

The aim of CIP's collaborative programs is not only to support the training of doctoral integrative candidates as future clinicians and researchers. We also seek to sponsor public educational forums, to offer research for outcomes of integrative practices, to provide a Center of community networking for agents of change, and to website information enabling 21st generation researchers and practitioners to stay current with interdisciplinary and global paradigm shifts occurring in psychology, social and health sciences, and across both humanistic and physical sciences.