Loomans, Pieter (NL / Ger)
Biography:
Pieter Loomans (* 1954) earned a diploma in psychology at the University of Nimwegen (Holland) and treats adults, children and adolescents in his private practice. Since 1981 he has been active as a psychotherapist in Ruette, and since 1983 in the Ruette Forum. From 1990–1993 he was a member of the executive committee of EUROTAS, since 1997 chairman of the Spiritual Emergence Network Germany (SEN), and director of the Ruette Forum, an independent conference and advanced training center.
Lecture:
Peace and its opponents. Recognizing, enduring and overcoming conflicts from the view of transpersonal psychotherapy
The contribution of psychoanalysis to the discovery of inner conflicts is obvious. Likewise obvious is the encouragement to acknowledge inner ambivalences. In Transpersonal Psychotherapy, in particular, the ability to endure such conflicts is recognized as a possibility to transcend them.
In the process of attaining consciousness, which strives toward wholeness of the human psyche, the task is not only to reverse and to overcome one-sidedness, repressions, split offs, and abnegations in the individual, but also in the collective unconscious of mankind. These efforts contribute not only to personal peace of mind, but also reflect and make evident social imbalances and suppressed conflicts.
In this sense, transpersonal psychotherapy can contribute to the illumination and surmounting of collective repressions that appear in various social, cultural and international discrepancies.