Abstract

NUNES, Emanuelle Caires Dias Araújo; SILVA, Luzia Wilma Santana da; OLIVEIRA, Jerônimo Moreira de  and  OLIVEIRA, Palmira da Conceição Martins de. Reflecting the ‘Transpersonal’ human - an multidisciplinary understanding in parallel with the state of the art of being. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2010, vol.serIII, n.2, pp.173-180. ISSN 0874-0283.

The aim of the study was to carry out a comprehensive theoretical and multidisciplinary reflection on the concept of transpersonality, which could underpin multidimensional care of human beings. This is a multidisciplinary theoretical paper developed from nursing, sociology and psychology references with contributions from quantum physics, biology and anthropology in parallel with the state of the art. The data for the literature review were collected from the Virtual Health Library (LILACS, SciELO and MEDLINE) and SCOPUS with the descriptor ‘transpersonal’. Nine relevant articles emerged according to the proposal. Understanding transpersonality within an interdisciplinary perspective proved to be necessary to achieve more integrated care for human beings in their complexity. The analysis and discussion was developed by linking the theoretical concepts with the experiences observed in the literature review to underpin the development of an expanded form of nursing care, more sensitive to the needs of the other, more interactive/intersubjective and bound to human beings. We conclude that thinking transpersonally requires us to see human beings as multidimensional, systemic, psychological, quantum, total, cared for, intersubjective - Transpersonal. Thus, a new teaching and learning paradigm is needed that develops a knowing-being-knowing how-doing of interdisciplinarity in the praxis of today’s nursing care.

Keywords : health care; humans.

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