Claudio Naranjo

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Claudio Naranjo (2007)

Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen (born November 24, 1932 in Valparaíso ; † July 12, 2019 in Berkeley ) was an American psychiatrist , gestalt therapist and meditation teacher from Chile .

Life

Naranjo grew up in a musical family and studied composition. After attending schools in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile , he studied medicine. In 1959 he received his doctorate. During this time influences emanated from the Chilean-German sculptor Tótila Albert, the poet David Rosenmann-Taub and the philosopher Bogumil Janowski. After completing his PhD, Naranjo worked at the Medical Faculty of the University of Chile on a research project for medical anthropological studies. At the same time, he completed training as a specialist in psychiatry .

On behalf of the University of Chile, he went to Ohio State University in Columbus, USA, to learn about the connection between perception and knowledge ("perceptual learning") from Samuel Renshaw and Hoyt Sherman . As a fellow Naranjo studied at the University of Harvard , the personality theory of Henry Murray and the motivation theory of David McClelland know. Here Naranjo also took part in Gordon Allport's seminars , and he was a student of Paul Tillich . Then he was a colleague of Raymond Cattell in his institute for personality and performance tests. This was followed by a study visit to Berkeley University , financed by the Guggenheim Foundation .

In the years after 1960, Naranjo met Carlos Castaneda and Fritz Perls . During this time he was part of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California . And he attended Charlotte Selver's workshops on sensory awareness.

In 1967 Claudio Naranjo returned to Chile. In the same year he presented his research on psychotherapy supported by the hallucinogenic ibogaine at an LSD conference hosted by the University of California . In Chile, Naranjo worked at the university.

Naranjo again worked at the Esalen Institute. When Fritz Perls left the institute in 1969 to found a Gestalt community at Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, Canada , Naranjo was one of three successors. In the same year he took on assignments at the Education Policy Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute . This is where Naranjo's first book was written, which was published under the title The One Quest . On behalf of Ravenna Helson, he also examined matriarchal and patriarchal factors as represented in various books. Helson had discovered these differences between authors of mathematical works on the one hand and authors of children's books on the other. The research results led to the publication of the book The Divine Child and the Hero many decades later .

After the accidental death of his only son on March 28, 1970, Claudio Naranjo - together with forty pilgrims - withdrew for six months for a spiritual retreat in the Atacama Desert near Arica . Oscar Ichazo , who founded the Arica School in 1968, was in charge of this exam . Naranjo got to know the Enneagram and had spiritual and contemplative experiences. At the end of 1970, he passed this experience on to a small group that included his mother for the first time. In September 1971 his work began in Berkeley, from which the founding of the SAT Institute emerged. In 1976 Naranjo was visiting professor for two semesters at the University of California, Santa Cruz . From this time on he was internationally active and put his SAT programs - a combination of psychotherapeutic work with the Enneagram - into practice in the USA, Spain, Argentina, Italy, Colombia, Brazil and Germany.

Claudio Naranjo died in California in July 2019 at the age of 86.

position

Naranjo was a representative of the US Human Potential Movement and the Fourth Way movement. The contacts with Oscar Ichazo, who introduced him to the Enneagram, were decisive for Naranjo. This initiation and the encounters with spiritual personalities such as Idries Shah and Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche prompted Naranjo to found his school for psycho-spiritual development, called SAT ( Seekers After Truth - seekers for the truth and also being in Sanskrit).

See also

Publications

  • On the Psychology of Meditation. Together with Robert E. Ornstein. The Viking Press, New York 1971.
    • German edition: Psychology of Meditation. Together with Robert E. Ornstein. Translated from American English by Michel Klostermann. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-21811-X .
  • The One Quest. Viking Press, New York 1972.
  • The journey to the self. Psychotherapy with healing drugs. Treatment protocols. Translated from American English by Modeste zur Nedden-Pferdekamp. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-23381-X .
  • Character and Neurosis. An integrative view. City Gateways, Nevada 1994.
  • Shape. Presence, awareness, responsibility. Basic attitude and practice of a living therapy. Translated from American English by Matthias Schossig. Arbor, Freiamt 1996, ISBN 3-924195-25-0 .
  • Chants of enlightenment. The spiritual decoding of great poems. Translated from American English by Matthias Schossig. Hugendubel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89631-165-4 .
  • Change through insight. The types of enneagrams in life, literature, and clinical practice. Via Nova, Petersberg 1999.
  • Gestalt Therapy. The Attitude and Practice of an Atheoretical Experientialism. Wales Published by Crown House, 2000, ISBN 1-899836-54-3 .
  • The end of patriarchy and the awakening of a three-united society. Via Nova, Petersberg 2000, ISBN 3-928632-65-5 .
  • Know yourself in the enneagram. The 9 types of personality. Kösel, Kempten 2001, ISBN 3-466-34316-X .
  • The divine child and the hero. The deeper meaning of children's literature. Via Nova, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-928632-96-5 .
  • The healing of civilization. How personal transformation through upbringing and integrating the intrapsychic family can be transferred to society. One World Press, 2013.
  • The patriarchal ego. Lit, Berlin 2013.
  • Character and neurosis. An integrative perspective. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15610-7 .
  • The inner music. Essays on musical hermeneutics. Translated from the Spanish by Josephine Désirée Eisenmann. Hollitzer, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99012-563-2 .

literature

  • Willis Harman: Global Mind Change. The Promise of the Last Years of the Twentieth Century. Indianapolis 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murió Claudio Naranjo, reconocido psiquiatra chileno , CNN Chile, July 12, 2019, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ The source says 1977, but this year is obviously incorrect.
  3. ^ Homepage of Claudio Naranjo
  4. ↑ Naranjo on the SAT website
personal data
SURNAME Naranjo, Claudio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naranjo Cohen, Claudio Benjamín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist, author, and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso
DATE OF DEATH 12th July 2019
Place of death Berkeley