Harald Piron

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Harald Piron (born May 31, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German psychotherapist and meditation researcher .

Life

Piron studied psychology at the University of Trier , worked in a practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Leverkusen from 1993 to 1998 and completed various psychotherapy trainings (including rational-emotional therapy according to Albert Ellis , psychosynthesis according to Roberto Assagioli and behavioral therapy ). Since 1999 he has been a licensed , resident psychotherapist with health insurance approval for behavioral therapy. In 2003 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Meditation and its meaning for mental health , in which the development and validation of the construct "Meditation Depth" and the Meditation Depth Questionnaire (MTF) as well as an empirical study on the effects of meditation on personal development and mental health are documented. Piron was able to prove that there is a cross-traditional and method-independent dimension of meditative depth that spans and integrates a spectrum of five depths.

Act

Piron and Klaus Engel founded the Society for Meditation and Meditation Research (SMMR eV) in Cologne, of which he has been a board member since 2000. From 2004 to 2016 he was its first chairman, and in 2017 he became first deputy chairman. The SMMR is a non-profit, interdisciplinary scientific association that advocates a scientific, cross-methodological, interdenominational and transcultural understanding of meditation, promotes the dialogue between the traditions as well as between researchers, experts and meditators and the basic and applied research on relaxation methods , Meditation and yoga supported. Since 2003 he has also been a permanent member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Transpersonal Psychologie und Psychotherapie , which was renamed Consciousness Sciences in 2011 . Based on his empirical studies on the depths of meditation and consciousness, as well as on the neuroscientific findings on neuroplasticity , the ability to integrate and transform the human brain and spirit, in particular for vertical integration according to evolution, he developed and founded transpersonal behavioral therapy and the relevant German College for Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy (DKTP).

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Meditation depth. Basics, research, training, psychotherapy. Springer, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-662-58880-2 .
  • Transpersonal behavior therapy. From stagnation to transformation. Via Nova, Petersberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-86616-063-7 .
  • The dimension of consciousness in meditation and behavior therapy. In: Impulses for health psychology and public health. Department of Health and Clinical Psychology at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (ed.), DGVT- Verlag, Tübingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-87159-821-0 .
  • Meditation and its importance for mental health. BIS, Oldenburg 2003. ISBN 978-3-8142-0872-5 .
  • The depth dimension in meditation - an empirical study. In: Transpersonal Psychologie und Psychotherapie , Issue 1/2001, Via Nova, Petersberg, pp. 66–81.
  • Meditation Depth, Mental Health, and Personal Development. In: Journal for Meditation and Meditation Research. Peter Lang Publishing Group , Frankfurt / M. 2003, pp. 45-58.
  • The Meditation Depth Index (MEDI) and the Meditation Depth Questionnaire (MEDEQ). In: Journal for Meditation and Meditation Research. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Frankfurt / M. 2001.

As editor

  • With Renaud van Quekelberghe: Meditation and Mindfulness. Old knowledge creates new science. Klotz, Eschborn 2014. ISBN 978-3-88074-386-1 .
  • with Renaud van Quekelberghe: meditation and yoga. Mindfulness, healing, self-knowledge. Klotz, Eschborn 2010. ISBN 978-3-88074-025-9 .
  • With Wilfried Belschner , Arndt Büssing and Dorothea Wienand-Kranz: Mindfulness as a way of life. (= Psychology of Consciousness. Vol. 6.) LIT-Verlag, Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-0479-4 .
  • With Wilfried Belschner and Harald Walach : Consciousness transformation as an individual and social goal. (= Psychology of Consciousness. Vol. 1.) LIT-Verlag, Hamburg 2005. ISBN 3-8258-8522-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vita. In: institut-tipp.de. Institute for Transpersonal Behavior Therapy, accessed on May 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Board of Directors. In: smmr.de. Society for Meditation and Meditation Research, accessed May 12, 2017 .
  3. ^ Association. Objectives. In: smmr.de. Society for Meditation and Meditation Research, accessed May 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Piron, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychotherapist and meditation researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne