WHAT IS ONTOPSYCHOLOGY?

Ontopsychology originated and was theoretically formalized in 1971 with Antonio Meneghetti’s book The Ontopsychology of the human being. His thoughts and above all his discoveries, permit a complete understanding of what pertains to elementary psychology, and are made official by the Ontopsychology Chair at the St. Petersburg State University Psychology Faculty (http://www.spbu.ru/e/Education/Faculties/Psychology/departments.html; http://www.psy.pu.ru/index.php?n=44; http://www.psy.pu.ru/index.php?n=30&m=2&#q1; for information: onto@onto.ru). This science was essentially motivated and developed through the experience of the crisis in science (Husserl) and above all from the intuition that existence has its own foundation. In ten years of clinical practice Meneghetti received complete confirmation of his theories from the laws of nature (disappearance of the symptom in every case study in his clinical psychotherapy research, from neoplasm to various psychosomatics, from neurosis to asocial dystonia.) and he isolated the basic communications of the ontic In-itself (the ontic criterion that shapes man) on a natural existential basis (with a biological parallel), establishing the principle that every piece of knowledge is true if it is capable of reversibility within the real of life. From this we can see that Ontopsychology is a general episteme for any scientific or intellectual procedure. The ontologic connection guarantees the reciprocal causality. “Any theory is true if it possesses that ontologic connection that produces the evidence of the causality for that object”. The solution of psychotherapy applied to a symptom is only a tool of Ontopsychology; its real aim is to form leaders, who will have active intuition for solutions for the collective.
From the beginning of the nineties the direction has been sociological, underlining the important relationship between man and society and privileging – in conformity with its original intention – the psychology of self fulfilment and creativity, the leader who actuates his leadership through attentive service to human needs and to those of society. On this basis it can be applied to art, politics, and economics. The time and methodology of study are rapid and incisive, and allow the operative leader to completely separate himself from a consciousness formed by cultural stereotypes, and to achieve an ontic consciousness resulting in integral-historical realization.
In thirty five years of didactic and above all demonstrative activity carried out in Europe, Russia, Africa, China and the Americas over sixteen international congresses have been held; over thirty books have been written in Italian and then translated into Russian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German and Chinese; protocols of understanding have been established with many universities throughout the world and chairs for post-graduate specialization have been opened in recognized State universities with the aim of forming specialized workers in Ontopsychology throughout the world.
Today Ontopsychology is seen above all as a term for interdisciplinary knowledge, as it is aimed towards people who work in a global context, from epistemic research to “internet” technique.