The Healing Journey (2nd Edition): Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy - Softcover

Naranjo, Claudio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979862280 ISBN 13: 9780979862281

Publisher: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2013

Synopsis

This book takes an in-depth look at the spiritual and psychotherapeutic potential of the amphetamine derivatives MDA and MMDA, harmaline (the active compound in ayahuasca), and ibogaine. To distinguish them from classical psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, Naranjo coins the terms emotion-enhancers and fantasy-enhancers for these substances. This book is a must-read for all serious students of consciousness and the human psyche, and for those with a personal or professional desire to explore revolutionary innovations in psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, experimental psychiatry, or the psychology of religion.

About this title

About the Author:

Naranjo was a major figure at the Esalen Institute where he became first an apprentice and later one of three successors to Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt Therapy). In years prior, Naranjo received additional training and supervision from Jim Simkin in Los Angeles and attended sensory awareness workshops with Charlotte Selver. He became Carlos Castaneda's close friend and became part of Leo Zeff's pioneering psychedelic therapy group (1965 66). These meetings resulted in Naranjo s contribution of the use of harmaline, MDMA, and ibogaine. Naranjo developed the SAT Institute s international program of psychotherapy workshops bringing together Gestalt therapy, applications of the Enneagram to personality, interpersonal meditation, music, and guided self-insight. Since the late 1990s, Claudio Naranjo has participated in many educational conferences in his ongoing work to help create more socially and spiritually responsible educational systems around the world. His book Changing Education to Change the World (published in Spanish in 2004) stimulated the efforts of the SAT-in-Education project, helping spur Spain s increasingly powerful education reform movement. Naranjo s influence on the transformation of the educational system in various countries led the prestigious University of Udine (Italy) to award him an honorary Doctorate in Education (Honoris Causae). In 2006, the Claudio Naranjo Foundation (Fundación Claudio Naranjo) was founded to implement Naranjo s proposals for creating an educational system that integrates all aspects of human development instinctual, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual and encourages social evolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0979862280
• ISBN 13: 9780979862281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 221