Claudio Naranjo

Claudio Naranjo (born November 24, 1932, in Valparaíso) is a Chilean anthropologist and psychotherapist who is noted for his interdisciplinary work with mind-altering substances as well as the Enneagram of Personality and Gestalt psychotherapy.

In the 1960s Naranjo worked directly with Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy. Naranjo is considered a major figure in the Human Potential Movement and the Fourth Way movement.

Naranjo suggests that the ideal feeling enhancer will "elicit an expansion of emotional awareness without interfering with thinking". He was the first author to publish on the use of ibogaine in psychotherapy. This research has been described in The Healing Journey together with his other related investigations of MDMA and harmal alkaloids and their psychotherapeutic applications.

Naranjo is also founder of the EduSAT program for educators which organizes periodic seminars on psychotherapeutic work using the Enneagram of Personality in the United States, 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 Naranjo:

• The Healing Journey: ISBN 0394488261
• The One Quest: ISBN 0895561611
• Enneatypes and Psychotherapy: ISBN 0934252475
• Enneatype Structures: ISBN 0895560631
• Character and Neurosis: ISBN 0895560666
• The End of Patriarchy: ISBN 1569370656
• The Enneagram of Society: ISBN 089556159X
• The Divine Child and the Hero: ISBN 0895561093
• The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure: ISBN 1577331400
• Techniques of Gestalt Therapy: ISBN 0939266008
• Gestalt Therapy: ISBN 1899836543
• Consciousness and Creativity: ISBN 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

See also

• Leo Zeff

External links

• Naranjo's official website