“…In nursing scholarship, Integral Theory is most prominent in the following substantive areas: holistic nursing philosophies and practices; unitary caring perspectives; complementary and alternative therapies; and nursing education (Clark, , , ; Clark & Pelicci, ; Dossey, , ; Fiandt, Forman, Erickson Jegel, Pakieser, & Burge, ; Gray, ; Jarrin, , ; Watson, ). Although it has been proposed as a metatheoretical framework for organizing disciplinary knowledge in a manner similar to the discipline of psychology (Baye, ; Dossey, ; Jarrin, , ; Shea & Frisch, , ), most early attempts have aligned with a particular disciplinary perspective that presumes a common ontology in nursing, as well as perspective neutrality (Pesut, ).…”