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Sablon:Infobox person Andrew Feldmár (Feldmár András, 28 October 1940, Budapest - ) is a Hungarian born psychotherapist and mathematician living in Canada. He is most known as the Hungarian follower of R. D. Laing, the Scottish psychiatrist who was one of the leading figures of the counterculture of the ‘60s. Laing, who later became his friend, first had been his teacher and therapist[1][2][3][4]. Following his mentor, Feldmár practices and popularizes a form of radical psychotherapy, where the main goal of the therapist is to engage in a real, spontaneous and honest relationship with the patient. This approach is based on the findings of researches on interpersonal phenomenology, spiritual emergency, the anthropology of healing, existential psychotherapy and community therapy. Feldmár rejects the labelling of human suffering therefore distances himself from the mainstream forms of psychiatry and psychotherapy which are based on the concept of mental illness[5][6][7][8][9]. He has published many books in Hungarian, he lectures, teaches, provides supervision and therapy internationally, he has worked as a psychotherapist with over 48 years of experience, having spent more than 100.000 hours in psychotherapy with clients. He has been noticeably successful treating psychotic patients. He is a well-known expert in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy[10][11][12][13][14][15].

Biography

Andrew Feldmár was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1940 in a non-religious Jewish family. When he was 3 and a half years old his mother was taken to Auschwitz, his father to a labor camp, and his grandmother to the Budapest ghetto. However his father managed to arrange for a young Catholic woman to take the young Andrew. For a year and a half he was living with the woman called Irén Igaz (in Hungarian her last name means righteous) and her kids. To protect him, he had to be called on a different name. His relatives came back around 1945. After the defeat of the 1956 revolution, at the age of 16 he immigrated to Canada alone. Feldmár holds an Honours BA in mathematics, physics and chemistry from the University of Toronto, as well as an MA in psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Psychological Association. Feldmár is married, he has a daughter and a son.

Career

Feldmár had been trained in the practice of psychotherapy and had been trained and supervised in LSD therapy under R.D. Laing in London between 1974-75.[16][17] During this year he had also studied from a wide range of well-known experts of their fields: Francis Huxley, John Heaton, Hugh Crawford and Leon Redler. At the Esalen Institute in California, Feldmár worked with one of the founders of transpersonal psychology Stanislav Grof. He gained further experience in the field while volunteering at Hollywood Hospital in New Westminster, where LSD was legally used for research and therapy. He gained experience in Brief psychotherapy in Palo Alto in the research group of Paul Watzlawick. While still legal, he had been involved in different projects concerning the use of MDMA in psychotherapy. In 2008 he has been involved in a research study, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) to show the efficacy of MDMA as an adjunct to psychotherapy with severe cases of PTSD.[18][19][20][21] He is currently a mentor in the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research program in California.[22] Although he promotes the benefits of research and use of MDMA in therapy he does not practice it due to its illegality.

He has participated in many research projects and taught, lectured and lead workshops at the Simon Fraser University (SFU)[23], University of British Columbia (UBC)[24], Emily Carr and Douglas College[25], The Cold Mountain Institute[26], The Collingwood Institute and meetings of BC Psychologists Association as well as in Europe (eg. London[27] and Stuttgart[28]). In Hungary he is a frequent participant of popular open lectures and podiums, he has a regular column with Dorottya Büky in the Hungarian newspaper HVG[29].

In 1989, he was a guest on a 3-part CBC Ideas radio series entitled R.D. Laing Today[30]. He has also worked as a consultant in both television and film (eg. Showcase's Kink series)[31]. He founded the Integra Households Association, a non profit charity working with those in extreme mental distress. In the 1987 film, Did You Used to be R.D. Laing? which he co-produced, Feldmár played together with Laing. He also played in the 2013 documentary, From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines[32]. He also appeared in the Colbert Report[33], because he was banned from the US for several years after a board guard googled his work[34][35][36]. Feldmár worked for several international organizations as a specialist of mental health. In 1993 he took part in the UNESCO Chernobyl Program in Minsk, Belarus. He participated in training specialists for the Community Mental Health Centers for the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe. In 1996 for two weeks he was a consultant of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bosnia and Croatia.

To popularize Feldmár's work, his theoretical and practical approach to mental health Andrew Feldmár and a group of professionals in 2006 founded an institute in Budapest, Hungary, called Feldmár Intézet (in English: Feldmár Institute). The nonprofit organization is organizing and hosting popular events and an annual summer school[37]. The Institute sponsors a reintegration program for inmates which has proven to be significantly successful. (Only 5 out of the 65 convicted participants are registered as re-offenders, while the national rate is 50%.)[38] The Institute is also involved in the sponsorship and professional work of the Soteria Shelter program in Budapest, a non-coercive alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.[39]. Feldmár has been writing poems since his childhood. In the mid 60's he was the Poet of the Month on Toronto’s CHQM radio, and his poetry was read at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2007 a selection of his haikus was published in a bilingual (English-Hungarian) poetry book[40]. His poems were translated by the famous Hungarian contemporary poet Dezső Tandori[41].

Bibliography (in Hungarian)

Seletcted works (in English)

Publications

Interwievs

Videos

External links

References

  1. Feldmár, Andrew: Entheogens and Psychotherapy. Janus Head
  2. {{Cite book|title=R.D.Laing: 50 years since The Divided Self|last=Theodor Itten and Courtenay Young|first=|publisher=PCCS Books|year=2012|isbn=1906254540|location=|pages=Chapter II/12 - Andrew Feldmár: Love, will, and the hatred of reality}}
  3. R.D. Laing Radio Series with Andrew Feldmár and Patricia Wilensky, 1989, CBC Radio. British Universities Film and Video Council
  4. R. D. Laing and the Courage to Be. Saybrook University
  5. The Depression Confessions - Vancouver, 2017. YouTube
  6. The Psychedelic Apprentice - Psychedelic Science, 2013, California. YouTube
  7. Deconstructing Psychiatry (Vancouver Co-op Radio, 2011). YouTube
  8. Andrew Feldmár on Psychotherapy - Feldmár Institute, 2016. YouTube
  9. Andrew Feldmár - Lunar Eclipse -- A Life Worth Living (TEDxDanubia, 2011, Budapest). YouTube
  10. The LSD Psychotherapist - King’s Society for Psychedelic Studies, 2017, London. Vimeo
  11. Psychedelic Therapy: Notes from the Underground - Breaking Convention, 2015. Vimeo
  12. Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics Overview & Personal Journey - Andrew Feldmar (Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum, 2015, Canada). YouTube
  13. Andrew Feldmár - LSD, MDMA, & Therapy - Change Truth, 2016. YouTube
  14. Andrew Feldmár on MAPS Canada. Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
  15. Andrew Feldmár: “Entheogens and Other Medicines for the Soul, for the Spirit, for Us.”. Spirit Plant Medicine
  16. R.D. Laing : 50 years since The divided self / edited by Theodor Itten & Courtenay Young
  17. Entheogens and Psychotherapy. Janus Head
  18. Andrew Feldmár: Psychedelic drugs could heal thousands. The Guardian
  19. Interview with Andrew Feldmar About Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. MAPS
  20. The Rainbow States of Consciousness - Andrew Feldmar - Conscious Living Radio”, Conscious Living Radio, 2014. október 8. (Hozzáférés: 2018. július 2.) (amerikai angol nyelvű) 
  21. Andrew Feldmár: MDMA for PTSD. YouTube
  22. Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research. California Institute of Integral Studies
  23. Andrew Feldmár: A Laingian/Psychedelic/Therapeutic Perspective on The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker Legacy conference (2015). City University of Seattle
  24. Spirit Plant Medicine Conference (2014)
  25. Andrew Feldmár: The dangers of taking R.D. Laing seriously (2018)
  26. (1985. május 1.) „A practical therapy workshop by R.D. Laing and Andrew Feldmár”. Yoga Journal.  
  27. The LSD Psychotherapists - King’s Society for Psychedelic Studies (2016). Vimeo
  28. International Colloquium of the Centre for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning (2018). University of Stuttgart
  29. Feldmár András: „Trauma bármilyen élmény, aminek a végét várom”. HVG
  30. Ideas - R.D. Laing. CBC Radio
  31. Andrew Feldmár on IMDB. IMDB
  32. Andrew Feldmár ☆ From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines ☆ 2013. YouTube
  33. Nailed 'em - Northern Border (2007). Comedy Central
  34. LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US. The Tyee
  35. Closed doors of perception. The Guardian
  36. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Zhejiang University School of Public Health
  37. Summer School with Andrew Feldmár in 2017
  38. Story-circle in the Prison
  39. Soteria Shelter Program in Hungary: Crisis as Danger and Opportunity. Mad In America
  40. Küszöbgyakorlatok
  41. Terebess Online