F. Diane Barth

2014

A Contemporary Perspective

In recent years integrative practices have become part of the political and professional landscapes. Not only in medicine and mental health, but also in business, politics, international diplomacy, education, and many other aspects of modern life (e.g., see Fawcett & Hurrell, 2000), the idea of integration, that is, of bringing together parts that may not appear to be connected in order to make a more complete and complex whole, has become part of contemporary thought.