Dinu-Stefan Teodorescu

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Curriculum vitæ:

· Karate teacher in Romania (1978-1987)

· President of Romanian Cultural Association from Norway (1987-1989)

· Founder and the first president of the Norwegian Transpersonal Association (1995-1998)

· Student in History of Religions at Oslo University (1996).

· Student in Tibetology at Institute for Cultural Studies, Oslo- Norway with prof. Per Kværne (1997)

· Professional study of psychology at Oslo and Tromsø University in Norway (1995-2004).

· Certificate in Transpersonal Psychology from French Transpersonal Psychology Institute (2000).

· Student in East Asia Religions at Oslo University (2003)

· Clinical psychologist working at a government clinic for adults in Norway (2005-2008).

· Ph.D. Candidate at Psychiatric Institute, Medical Faculty - Oslo University (2008-2012).

· NORWEGIAN RESEARCH NETWORK ON SPIRITUALITY and HEALTH (no new activity since 2010)

· DIN CENTER for SPIRITUALITY, PEACE and HEALTH (the center is no longer active)

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Publications:

· Strong meaning systems have more positive impact on less psychiatric disorders and higher quality of life than intrinsic, private, organized and posttraumatic growth in a clinical sample of severely traumatized out-patients immigrants in Norway (2010)

· Proposal for ICD-10 Update for a new diagnosis “Kundalini Awakening Syndrome“(2009).

· ICD-10’s limitations to distinguish between psychosis and spiritual emergencies: the need for a new diagnosis in ICD-11 for spiritual or religious problems (2008)

· Proposal for ICD-10 Update for a new diagnosis with “ Z code “: Spiritual or Religious problems”(2007).

· An Integral approach to depression. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (2003)

· Promotion or Prevention: The development of the Chronic Self Focus Scale (2003)

· Eye scanpaths during visual imagery reenact those of perception of the same visual scene( with Bruno Laeng Ph.D. in the  Journal of Cognitive Science)(2002).

· The same pattern of oculomotor activity during encoding and retrieval in fix-gaze and free-gaze in man (Tromsø-2000).

· Eye movement & Visual Meditation - Paper for the French Transpersonal Institute ( Paris-1999)

· Visualization Without Eye-Movements is the only visual meditation technique conducive to Samadhy (1999)

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Research interests and collaborations (past and present):

· Research collaborative for developing Integral Intelligence (a Web based program-2010)

· Development of DIN Spiritual Practice (2006-2012).

· Translation of DUREL into Norwegian (2008)

· Ph.D. Project on traumas, PTSD, religiosity and post traumatic growth (2008-2012).

· Investigation of ethical problems in the psychiatric interviews PANSS and SIPS (2008).

· Research collaborative “The Blue Project” for implementation of an internet based therapy for depression in Romania (2008-2009).

· Research collaborative “ The Karasjok group” for a new non-verbal and culture free IQ test for the SAMI people (2004)

Memberships (past and present):

· The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Special Interest Group: Spirituality and Trauma)

· Norwegian Association for Psychologists

· American Association for Transpersonal Psychology

· European Transpersonal Psychology Association

· The European Transpersonal Association

· French Transpersonal Association

Conferences (past and future)

· “ Religion at the borders” – Sweden- Stockholm 2007

· Kropp og sjel i behandling og habilitering – Norway-Biri-2010

· Conferinta Nationala de Arte Martiale- Cluj-Romania-2011