 In his review of the "Emergence of Transpersonal psychiatry" Chinen traced the common origin of the fields of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology to the counterculture of the 1960s, and the Humanistic psychology movement of the same period.The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology was founded in 1969 and became an important forum for the development of transpersonal theory.Clinicians participated in the transpersonal literature from the early rise of the field.