Jorgos Canacakis

Jorgos Canacakis ( Greek Γιώργος Κανακάκις ; born April 29, 1935 in Kalamata ) is a Greek psychologist and psychotherapist. He became known to a wider audience through his work and seminars on grief and grief therapy .

education

After graduating from high school (1952), Canacakis studied political science at the Panteion University of Athens and then until 1962 music, song, opera singing and opera directing at the Munich University of Music and from 1970 to 1972 at the Academy for Tonkunst in Darmstadt, voice education and vocal pedagogy . In 1980 he completed a four-year course in psychology as a certified psychologist and then completed training in psychotherapy until 1984 . In 1982, he was at the University of Essen with a dissertation on the subject of mourning process in the ritual Dr. phil. PhD.

Professional background

Canacakis worked as an opera singer and director at various opera houses in Europe from 1958 to 1976 .

From 1974 to 1996 he taught as a lecturer and lecturer at the University of Essen in the fields of medicine , education and music, and as a visiting professor at other universities. From 1982 to 1997 he was a lecturer and teaching therapist at the Fritz Perls Institute in Düsseldorf and the European Academy for Psychosocial Health and Creativity in Hückeswagen, and from 1991 to 1994 he was professor of psychotherapy at the University of Crete ( Greece ).

Canacakis is also a founding member of the Peace University Potsdam and the founder and director of the European Mourning Seminars (ETS) and scientific director of the Academy for Human Companion (AMB) in Essen, which he founded in 1975, where he trains life and grief counselors and counselors for adults and children Children takes place.

Publications (selection)

Publications in book form

I see your tears, Kreuz-Verlag 1987,
I accompany you through your grief, Kreuz-Verlag 1989,
New ways of healing cancer, Kreuz-Verlag 1997
Stefanie Montermann-Müller (adaptation), I see your tears. Aliveness in grief. The basics of the life and grief transformation model (LTUM). Complete revision of the tried and tested texts, expanded with current topics and images and enriched with new findings from research and practice, Freiburg, Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-61031-8 .
The world is full of half ducks, A book for your heart and your development, Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 2007
I accompany you through your grief, life-enhancing ways out of the mourning labyrinth; newly revised, co-designed and rearranged by Stefanie Montermann-Müller, Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 2007
In search of the rainbow tears, Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag 1994 and 2006,
I see your tears [phonograms]: vitality in grief; the Life and Grief Transformation Model (LTUM), Jorgos Canacakis; read by Hans-Peter Bögel , Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 2006
I will accompany you through your grief, Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 2002
I see your tears mourn, lament, be able to live, with a foreword by Kristine Schneider; Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 2002
New ways of healing cancer, offers for those affected and helpers, Jorgos Canacakis and Kristine Schneider, Stuttgart, Kreuz-Verlag, 1997.
with Kristine Schneider (preface), I see your tears. Mourning, complaining, being able to live, Stuttgart 1987, 2nd edition 1988, 3rd edition 1989, 4th edition 1990, 5th and 6th edition 1991, 7th edition 1993, 9th edition 1994, 10th and 11th edition 1995 , ISBN 3-7831-0877-2 .
We play with our shadows. Suggestions for family, leisure, school and therapy (= Rororo, Volume 7960, series Living with children), Reinbek near Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-499-17960-1 .
Grief processing in the mourning ritual and physical and mental well-being. Psychological field study on the psycho-hygienic effectiveness of the moiroloja in Mani , Greece, 1982, (Hochschulschrift Essen, Univ., Diss., 1982).

Magazine articles

Impression demands holistic expression. Jorgos Canacakis in conversation with Petra Rechenberg-Winter, in: Leidfaden , Volume 2, 2013, Issue 3, pp. 25-27.

Web links

Literature by and about Jorgos Canacakis in the catalog of the German National Library
Personal website of Jorgos Canacakis
The West: "The Man Who Teaches Mourning"

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Canacakis, Jorgos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Κανακάκις, Γιώργος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek psychologist and psychotherapist, grief researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kalamata , Greece

[1] Homepage of the Academy for Human Support by J. Canacakis

[2] Homepage of the Academy for Human Support