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This chapter provides an overview of Sri Aurobindo's psychological and spiritual thought. It shows how the thought provides an organizing framework for Western psychology. With these three developments in consciousness-body, heart, and mind-Sri Aurobindo believed that the world is now ready for the next development of consciousness, the emergence of Spirit. Indra Sen was the first psychologist to realize the importance of integral yoga for psychology. Cortright, a key writer in the field of integral psychology, has published a series of papers and the book Integral Psychology, which further elucidated the integration of Western psychology with integral yoga. Integral yoga sees four levels of human consciousness - the outer being, inner being, true being, and central being. The level of mind is subdivided in integral psychology into physical mind, emotional mind, and mind proper. Most of current academic psychology research, together with cognitive-behavioral psychology, focuses on the level of mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trillat concluded his 'Histoire de l'hysterie' with the words, "Hysteria is dead, that is clear. She has taken her riddles with her to the grave". We must stress, however, that this is not entirely true. Patients still suffer from the often strange symptoms of conversion hysteria. This paper covers the following topics: The D.S.M. IV criteria for conversion disorder, the similarities between conversion disorders, dissociation and hypnotic phenomena and the therapeutic application of hypnosis for patients with a conversion disorder. The treatment strategy and the relatively favourable treatment results of three patients - a woman suffering from flaccid paralysis of both legs, a patient referred for treatment of a clenched fist and a patient suffering from pseudo-ataxia - are described. In the discussion special attention is given to the difficulties in diagnosing the disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]