The Social Self, Health, and the Spiritual Journey

Key ideas in neuroscience, social psychology, and transpersonal psychology point to a view of human identity as a social phenomenon. One important part of that view the presence of the fundamental need to belong, both as a primal biological impulse and as a psycho-spiritual quest. In that light, the relationship with the patient can be seen as a matrix of healing. In this lecture, we explore the concept of the self as being fundamentally social and how this helps with promoting greater wellbeing and the spiritual journey.