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1. International Congress on Ecstatic States
Phenomenon - Experience - Healing

23. – 25. May 2008 at Hannover Medical School, Hannover (Germany)
(pre-congress workshops at Thursday afternoon and Friday morning)
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Organized by

Hannover Medical School
Dept. for Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Assistant Professor Torsten Passie M.D., M.A.
Professor Hinderk M. Emrich M.D., PhD.

German College for Transpersonal Psychology (DKTP)
Professor Wilfried Belschner PhD., University of Oldenburg

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Plenum-speakers:

Charles T. Tart
Christian Scharfetter
Andrzej Kokoszka
Thomas Metzinger
Stanley Krippner
Hinderk M. Emrich
and many others

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Focus:

Since prehistoric times, ecstatic experiences have influenced the worldview and individual awareness of man. In former times they even occupied a central position in cultural development, as still can be observed today in the Far East and in so-called primitive societies. In occidental history, ecstatic experiences were more and more demonized and marginalized. However, even today they are significant in regard to religious practices, somatic and psychological borderland experiences, sexuality, youth culture and psychotherapy.

Ecstatic experiences are often of great intensity and psychological power. They can purify and transform human beings, change their perspectives and values, give life another meaning, and unfold healing effects. This makes them interesting for a spiritually oriented psychotherapy.

For hundreds of years, scientific research has been looking at ecstatic experiences mainly as marginal borderland phenomenon of psychological life. Simultaneously in the Far East, whole cultures are striving to reach these „higher“ states of consciousness. Last but not least, they owe their different worldview and self-experience tothe above. Since the 1970s, the humanistic and later the transpersonal psychology have been discovering the connections of ecstatic „Peak-Experiences“ and psychotherapeutic processes and psychological health.

For this Congress we were able to enlist a range of internationally renowned experts in the field who will consider the phenomenon of ecstasy on the conceptual, experimental and practical level in its psychological, neurobiological, cultural and transcultural dimensions and will elucidate its potentially healing effects.

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Audience:

Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Physicians
Psychotherapists
Neuroscientists
Psychosocial workers
other Scientists and interested laymen

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Number of participants:

300 – 350 Persons
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Congress languages:

German + English (major parts are translated simultaneously)
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Congress fees:

280 € / 180€ (reduced price for students and unemployed persons)

www.ekstase-kongress.de
Registration:

Registration formular >>

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Further information:

http://www.bewusstseinszustaende.de/
http://www.dktp.org/

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