   JEFFREY MISHLOVE, Ph.D.: Hello and welcome. Our topic today
is "Psychotherapy and Spiritual Paths." My guest is Dr. Seymour
Boorstein, who is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Dr.
Boorstein is an associate clinical professor at the University
of California San Francisco Medical School, and he is editor of
and contributor to a marvelous volume called Explorations in
Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Seymour, welcome.   MISHLOVE: It's
a pleasure to have you here. You know, you've made quite a
transition from being an orthodox psychoanalyst to now a
proponent of the transpersonal approach, or the spiritual
approach, to psychotherapy. One of the points that you make in
your own writings in this area is that in order for a therapist
to really do transpersonal psychotherapy they have to have a
commitment themselves to a spiritual path, or to spiritual
growth in their lives. I wonder if you could describe how that
transition took place in your own life.  BOORSTEIN: Well, about
fifteen years ago, when I was forty, on a