'Claudio Naranjo' is a
Chilean-born anthropologist and psychiatrist who is noted for his inter-disciplinary work with mind-altering substances as well as the
Enneagram of Personality and
Gestalt psychotherapy.
In the 1960s Dr Naranjo worked directly with
Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy. Dr Naranjo is considered a major figure in the
Human Potential Movement and the
Fourth Way movement.
Dr Naranjo suggests that the ideal feeling enhancer will "elicit an expansion of emotional awareness without interfering with thinking". Given the mood-congruence of thought this aspiration may in the end prove unattainable. But the development of safer "soul medicines" to deepen and optimise our emotional repertoire promises to enrich human life in decades to come. Dr Naranjo was the first author to publish on the use of
ibogaine in psychotherapy
[1].
Dr Naranjo is also founder of the EduSAT program for educators which organizes periodic seminars on psychotherapeutic work using the Enneagram of Personality in the US, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Germany and Argentina. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.
References
Some books written by Dr. Naranjo:
★ The Healing Journey
★ The One Quest
★ How To Be
★ Enneatypes and Psychotherapy
★ Enneatype Structures
★ Character and Neurosis
★ The End of Patriarchy
★ The Enneagram of Society
★ Consciousness and Creativity
★ The Divine Child and the Hero
★ Transformation Through Insight
★ Between Meditation and Psychotherapy
★ Changing Education to Change the World
★ The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure
★ also published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
External links
★
Dr. Naranjo's website
★
EduSAT Argentina
★
Claudio Naranjo documentaries