Claudio Naranjo

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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 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 in the US, Spain and Argentina. He currently lives and works at UC Berkeley.

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1. ^ C. Naranjo. The Healing Journey. Chapter V, Ibogaine: Fantasy and Reality, 197-231, Pantheon Books, Div. Random House, New York (1973)

Books Authored by Claudio Naranjo: - Character and Neurosis (Enneagram) - Between Meditation and Psychotherapy - Changing Education to change the world - The Healing Journey - The One Quest

EduSAT Argentina Claudio Naranjo Documentaries