Claudio Naranjo

Claudio Naranjo was a Chilean psychiatrist, conferencier, psychotherapist, philosopher, writer and psychologist (1932–2019). He was born at Valparaíso and died at Berkeley.

Claudio Naranjo in brief

Born
1932
Died
2019
Known for
psychiatrist, conferencier, psychotherapist, philosopher, writer, psychologist and physician
Place of birth
Valparaíso
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Identity and origins

Claudio Naranjo was recorded at birth as Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen. His recorded languages were Spanish, American English, Portuguese and Italian. His recorded confession was Buddhism.

He was the child of Vicente Naranjo and Julia Cohen Gallerstein.

Catalogued works

36 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1973 to 2022.

Enneagram of Personality. Avaricia. Golosos , Tramposos , Soñadores y Charlatanes. On the psychology of meditation. The one quest. 27 personajes en busca del ser. The healing journey: new approaches to consciousness, dated 1974. The divine child and the hero, dated 1999. The enneagram of society, dated 2004. Healing civilization. Cambiar la educación para cambiar el mundo, dated 2007. The end of patriarchy, dated 1994. Ennea-type structures, dated 1990. Character and neurosis, dated 1994. Transformation through insight, dated 1997. Gestalt therapy, dated 1993. How to be, dated 1990. La Vieja y Novísima Gestalt. Vanidad (Eneatipo 3). Cantos del Despertar. Colombia, capital de los infiernos. Consciousness and Creativity. Cosas Que Vengo Diciendo/ Things That I Come Saying. El eneagrama de la sociedad. El niño divino y el héroe. Entre la hoguera y la paz. Erkenne dich selbst im Enneagramm. Die 9 Typen der Persönlichkeit. Gestalt sin Fronteras. La Agonia del Patriarcado. La única búsqueda. Neurosis and Character in the Light of the Enneagram. Psicologia de La Meditacion. Techniques of Gestalt Therapy. Girl Feeding Deer and Animals, dated 2022, earthenware and slip with paint, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2026.225. Miniature Bowl with Avanyu, dated 1996, earthenware and slip, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2024.404. The healing journey: new approaches to consciousness., dated [1973], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

7 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Claudio A. Naranjo, MD (1945–2014), Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2014. La Hermenéutica de Claudio Naranjo y el legado de Tótila Albert - Una vision Narratológica de la Forma Sonata, 2022. La terapia Gestalt y la presencia terapéutica de Fritz Perls: una entrevista a Claudio Naranjo., Universitas Psychologica, 2010. LA HERMENÉUTICA DE CLAUDIO NARANJO Y EL LEGADO DE TÓTILA ALBERT: UNA VISIÓN NARRATOLÓGICA DE LA FORMA SONATA, Neuma (Talca), 2022. Il Metodo Psycofilm Cinema e Psico-Oncologia, Phenomena Journal, 2020. Can AI Technologies Support Clinical Supervision? Assessing the Potential of ChatGPT, Informatics, 2025. Toward a Neurobiological Model of Gestalt Confluence: Thalamocortical Integration as a Hypothetical Framework for Contact Interruption, Brain Sciences, 2026.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

Lilah: el juego del conocimiento de sí mismo (1996) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 14 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Claudio Naranjo studied at National Conservatory of Music and University of Chile. the recorded working language is Spanish, American English and Portuguese.

The field of work recorded is transpersonal psychology and gestalt therapy.

Employment is recorded with University of Chile.

Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship and Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral.

Chronology

  1. 1932Claudio Naranjo born at Valparaíso.
  2. 1996Lilah: el juego del conocimiento de sí mismo digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 2019Claudio Naranjo died at Berkeley.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Claudio Naranjo”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1098121: Claudio Naranjo

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