# INTEGRAL PSYCHOTHERAPY #10 - "Transcendental Dementia?" w/ Bettina Witchers

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Podcast: [The Integral Stage Expanded Universe (ISEU)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-integral-stage-expanded-universe-iseu-5253710)
Published: 2026-01-04T19:53:00+00:00
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How do we cultivate robust, ethical, convivial human beings who have access to their full cognitive, emotional, and motivational resources? How can we better live functional, enjoyable lives, contribute to our societies' health and evolution, keep growing internally, and maximize the potentials of our best states? In this new Integral Stage series, we will be talking to Integral psychotherapists about their practices and experiences, and about the psychotechnologies, philosophical maps, and emerging clinical insights that can best help us to clean up and grow up -- to heal and thrive.For episode 10, Layman is joined by Bettina Wichers to discuss her groundbreaking research into transpersonal gerontology and the overlap of certain features of dementia with transpersonal or mystical experience.Bettina Wichers is an independent gerontologist and lecturer at the University of Göttingen who has specialized in the understanding dementia. She has worked for more than 25 years with nurses and care-givers in nursing homes, and has developed a unique framework, based upon Integral Theory, which aims to brings all the issues surrounding dementia – medical, psychological, social, spiritual – into a coherent framework. She is currently engaged in writing a book which expresses her evolving understanding of dementia from a unitive perspective.

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