ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses in more detail the important dimension of developmental lines and how they constitute a client’s integral psychograph. Clients’ developmental lines can be assessed in different ways, ranging the spectrum from informal interviews to formal testing. Once therapists have a sense of how developed a client’s lines currently are, those lines can be displayed as an integral psychograph. Keeping in mind that according to Ken Wilber, the most essential aspects of the cognitive line are capacities for awareness, therapists can get a ballpark sense of clients’ cognition by attending to clients’ use of language, their responses on the Integral Intake, and different possibilities and perspectives that clients discuss. Wilber distinguishes between gross, subtle, and causal cognition. Worldviews are the different ways that the world appears to people at different waves of development. When assessing a client’s motivations, bear in mind the important distinction between professed motivation and manifest motivation.
