Claudio Naranjo

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Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean-born (1932) 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." However, given the mood-congruence of thought--that is, the effects of emotional state on cognitive functions, this aspiration may in the end prove unattainable. 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, France and Argentina. He currently divides his time between the aforementioned countries and his home in Berkeley, California.

Some books written by Dr. Naranjo:

  • The Healing Journey: ISBN-10: 0394488261
  • The One Quest: ISBN-10: 0895561611
  • Enneatypes and Psychotherapy: ISBN-10: 0934252475
  • Enneatype Structures: ISBN-10: 0895560631
  • Character and Neurosis: ISBN-10: 0895560666
  • The End of Patriarchy: ISBN-10: 1569370656
  • The Enneagram of Society: ISBN-10: 089556159X
  • The Divine Child and the Hero: ISBN-10: 0895561093
  • The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure: ISBN-10: 1577331400
  • Techniques of Gestalt Therapy: ISBN-10: 0939266008
  • Gestalt Therapy: ISBN-10: 1899836543
  • Consciousness and Creativity: ISBN-10: 0894960091
  • Transformation Through Insight: ISBN: 0-934252-76-9
  • How To Be
  • Changing Education to Change the World
  • Between Meditation and Psychotherapy
  • also published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish

[edit] References

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

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