Claudio Naranjo was a Chilean psychiatrist. He was co-developer of the Enneagram of Personality. His studies and investigations oftenly focused in the search of spirituality to find mental stability, and also some times, the use of lisergic substance to free hidden and harmful thoughts.
I found the first few dozen pages of introduction to be of interest: a little background into Naranjo's early work with Ichazo, interest in Gurdjieff and later connection to a Sufi community, and his basic theoretical approach to the unity of psychological and social "ills." The rest of the book is given to type descriptions, but I found these to be old hat for anyone who already knows Naranjo and the Enneagram well; fuller and more complex descriptions of the correspondences between DSM personality disorders and Enneatypes, for instance, can be found in Naranjo's book "Character and Neurosis."
Someone online sent me a PDF copy so I kind of had no choice but to read it? At least, that's my excuse.
It's not a very good book overall. It feels like a compressed version of Character and Neurosis that has pretty bad sociological analysis tacked on. The part about love were also not particularly informative and could easily be extrapolated by most. I didn't live, basically.
Un libro crudo, que habla de la personalidad en relación a los otros (amor y sociedad). Para nada es un manual de tipo autoayuda, sinó una herramienta para la consciencia del individuo, lejos de superficialidades inocuas
Lo leí por recomendación de mi psicóloga y ma verdad permite ver nuestro lado oscuro, no sólo individual sino en colectividad. La psicología tiene muchas explicaciones a lo que nos sucede en el día a día y es una forma muy interesante de verlo.