Academician Professor Antonio Meneghetti

He is the founder of Ontopsychology and author of over forty books translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Chinese.

His thought and discovering that allows an integral rationality within the elementary psychology are currently officially taught at the Ontopsychology Chair, Psychology Faculty in Saint Petersburg State University
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His academic titles include: doctorate in Theology, Lateran University , Rome ; doctorate in Philosophy and doctorate in Social Sciences, International University St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome ; degree in Philosophy with Psychological address, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan ; honorary degree in Physics for the discovery of the Semantic Field.

On the 27 th of April, 1998 the Supreme Court of Inter-ministerial Evaluation of the Russian Federation awarded him with the title of Grand Doctor Nauk in Psychological Sciences (protocol 0104).

In the same year, he was also awarded two honorary titles: Grand Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor philosophy of medical by the International Informatization Academy .

On several occasions, he was awarded the Premio Cultura (cultural prize) by the Presidency of the Cabinet Council of the Italian Republic (1980, 1987, 1989).

He is the Chairman of the International Ontopsychology Association (NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations) and Academician and Vice Chairman of the International Informatization Academy (NGO in General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations).

In the 1980s, Meneghetti formalized his basic idea to distinguish between ontic and memetic information. He identified and described the effect of the deflection monitor and distinguished it from the identity and characteristics of the unity of action that distinguishes the human being acting in conformity to his/her project of nature: the ontic In-itself .

Since the early 1990s, he has been developing the sociological implications of his thought, stressing the important relation between the individual and society and giving priority (according with his initial ambition) to the psychology of self-fulfilment and creativity: the human being as a leader in the microcosm and in the macrocosm.

He shields the humanistic ethics sustaining the ontopsychological vision, especially when it is operated by healthy individuals who express their leadership by serving the progressive needs of the human being and society.

Today he is a worldwide recognized expert in leadership. His ideas and teaching stimulate advanced applications in the world of science, art, entrepreneurship, politics and eco-biology.

Antonio Meneghetti was born on the 9 th of March, 1936 in Avezzano (L'Aquila, Abruzzi - Italy; his family was extremely poor and he was the eldest of nine children; his father Pietro Meneghetti was from Veneto (Montebelluna), and his mother Anna Castellani was from Avezzano).

Until the age of thirteen, he would experience living on the street, going to church, to school and working - both in Veneto and in Abruzzi . He went through all the socio-economic aspects of the war, between Fascists and partisans, Germans and Americans. For him, the war was a common bestiality, and he has never considered Americans as liberators.

After the last war onwards, Europe has lost its superior humanistic knowledge and has let itself be prevailed by the superficiality of the USA .

At the age of fourteen, he entered the monastic order of Friar Minor Conventual in Assisi , Gubbio, Spoleto, and Rome .

After having been ordained as a priest at the age of twenty-five, he continued studying in the various faculties of the great universities in Rome, and attended special courses in Freiburg (Jung), London (Freudian psychoanalysis and Laing's Tavistock), Paris (Lacan), and Vienna (V. Frankl).

At the same time, he continued his artisan and artistic training in several fields - particularly, in Venice , Florence , and Rome . Meanwhile, he taught many matters in Gubbio, Spoleto, and Terni .

To support his widow mother and six surviving siblings, he had to fulfil the vow of Franciscan poverty and became a secular parish priest for six years in the little villages around Montereale ( L'Aquila , Abruzzi).

He continued his training in many fields, and from 1970 to 1974, he taught Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Ontopsychology at the University St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome .

He had always been mostly interested in the human being and in philosophy - most of all, in the critical knowledge problem. E. Husserl influenced in his intellectual crisis.

"Why don't human beings know the truth? Truth exists, since I'm existing. If I don't know it, it's because I'm ill". "The mistake doesn't depend on nature, but on a historical moment. Which one?"

At the age of thirty-six, Antonio Meneghetti formally left the Catholic Church with respect and gratefulness; he left his mother and siblings, who were all by now adults, and set up his first psychotherapy practice and training courses in Rome , in Viale Marco Polo (1971-1973). After three months, his office and school (with 60 people enrolled) were professionally successful.

To reach a complete existential experience, he married and had two daughters. Throughout ten years, until 1981, he discovered all psychological complexities and has put forward the existence and behaviour of the ontic In-itself, the semantic field, and the deflection monitor.

It was clear to him, at least, which was the historical mistake preventing the evidence of truth in philosophical diagnosis.

From his personal success, he has formulated various applications (scientific, association-like, artistic, entrepreneurial), publications, and congresses.

He had been musically training for years in the organ and piano, Gregorian chant, choral music, and chant (his masters were L. Perosi, D. Stella, L. Refice, B. Rizzi).

He studied Latin, ancient Greek, and Aramaic, to the point of being able to speak these languages correctly.

He would persist in searching and practising the various angles of art, in order to reach competence in the concept of sacred art. His favourite architect was L. Kahn. He would associate with F. Fellini's personality and set, from Otto e mezzo (Eight and a half) to La città delle donne (Women's town).

He used to spend several nights in obstetric clinics, to observe attitudes and behaviours, especially in the week before the delivery.

Being extremely cultured in bibliophily, he was curiously interested in juridical parallelisms; Roman law, economic law, and the Italian codes. He studied deeply the historical parallelisms of Europe, China , India , and Islam. He read international classical literature romances. He enjoyed himself with J. Verne, he admired Dante Alighieri and Dostoevskij, and had a preference for Beethoven and Puccini. Later on, he would successfully direct G. Verdi's Rigoletto (with highest success at the Don Orione theatre in Rome ).

He was against the 1968 movement. Among other things, from that year onwards the disqualification of the school of high formation, and political democracy degrees have started (political vow).

He was an esteemed and keen confessor and spiritual director. He deeply studied the hagiographies of the great, and in particular the mystics.

He has never been interested in modern languages. For him, Italian is the most complete and rich language, for its architecture and significance.

In May 1981, he perfected his painting exhibition in Perugia (Rocca Paolina), and due to reiterated defamatory allegations on the part of his ex-wife, he was sent to prison with his collaborators. (Allegations started in 1978 and went on until 2005. These allegations have always been levelled through expertly hidden slandering skills with occasional people in charge of local institutions). After a month, he was acquitted with no trial nor judgment, since the Investigating Magistrate entered a non-suit. From that however, the series of morbid curiosity of journalists and attendants was sparked off.

Meanwhile, whilst in prison, Antonio Meneghetti would continue his research on the reasons for delinquency and drug addiction, whose roots confirmed the previous discoveries he made during his psychotherapeutic activity.

From 1981 onwards, he left psychotherapy, since there was nothing more he could discover. He returned to dealing with philosophy, art, the organization of seminars and conventions, meetings of prestigious universities, and the definite analysis of leading subjects of our international, global society.

From 1981 to 1986 he would be interested in verifying the ontopsychological method on subjects and patients of different ethnic groups and cultures - the English, Spanish, Brazilians, Mauritanians, Iranians, Indians, Russians, Finnish, Jews, Arabians, Chinese, Mongolians, Uzbek, Congolese Bantus, Siberians; poor people, noble, fulfilled, successful; spiritual masters, politicians, entrepreneurs, doctors, priests, musicians, bureaucrats, barons, revolutionists, etc.

The method was tested and proved to be exact. The specific object is the individuation and activation of the ontological nexus - in the individual, in society, and in science.

From 1986 to 1996 he started making contact and establishing agreement protocols with the Eastern countries and Latin America , and every two years he would organize international Ontopsychology congresses on several leading main themes of the moment.

Once his method was completely confirmed by the laws of nature (disappearance of the symptoms in all the cases of clinical psychotherapy research, from neoplasm to the various kinds of psychosomatics, from neurosis to asocial dystonia), and once he had isolated the elementary communication of the ontic In-itself (the human being's ontic and formal criterion) on a naturistic existential basis (parallel to biology), Antonio Meneghetti restarted dealing with critical philosophy. He could establish the principle according to which all knowledge is true to the extent that it can be reversible within the reality of life. Either by beginning from the theory or image (logos), or by beginning from the thing, the one repeats or gives the other.

From this, he understood that Ontopsychology is a general epistemic to any scientific or intellective process. The ontological nexus guarantees mutual causality. "Any theory is true if it possesses that ontological nexus which gives evidence of the causality for that object".

From this, he re-organized the ontological principles of theoretic philosophy and moral philosophy.

Afterwards, he returned to dealing with artistic narcissism and socio-economic applications in many directions.

His piano and organ concerts are listened to in silence by hundreds of people. He performed at Castel dell'Ovo - Naples , Peterhof - Saint Petersburg , and the Auditorium in Rome .

As an architect, he has built and re-organized many places. He recovered and revitalized "Lizori", a XIII century medieval village in Umbria , and a 10,000 square metre farmhouse around Lodi ( Milan ); he built the winding-style village "Recanto Maestro" in Brazil , and the building "Calipso", presented at the 2005 World Architecture Congress in Istanbul .

As an artist, he has created paintings, iron and travertine sculptures both of ordinary and of enormous proportions. In Murano, he has moulded originals in polychromatic crystal both of ordinary sizes and oversize. Among his various personal exhibitions, which were sponsored by many regions and city councils, Doge's Palace - Venice, Castel dell'Ovo - Naples, Palazzo della Civiltà - Rome, National Museum of Science and Technology - Milan, Corderie dell'Arsenale - Venice, Stroganoff Palace - Saint Petersburg, Academy of Sciences - Moscow, MASP (Museo de Arte do Estado de São Paulo) - Brazil. "Any proportion is art to the extent that it reveals the aesthetic proportion".

As a couturier, he co-ordinated the "Antonio Meneghetti" boutique; in Como , he screen-printed silk clothes which brought honour to Italy at the premier in Paris .

In Rome , he organized many "ModAntonio" (" Antonio's Fashion") high couture fashion parades and was awarded the "Maître Tailleur" Prize by the president of the Italian Tailors' Federation and the "Custom-made Personality" Prize by the World Federation of Master Tailors.

He performed with the great Brioni.

At present, he likes economy and sociology. As far as economy is concerned, he has individuated the entrepreneur's subjective criterion, which marks the certain result of economic rationality. As far as sociology is concerned, he maintains that research needs to be re-founded neither on primitive human beings, nor on statistical or operationistic behaviour, but rather on the human being's intentionality of nature and on the environmental historical contrast.

"A society is good when it promotes the recovery of the ontological nexus".

As far as pedagogy is concerned, as he explained most of all at the United Nations ( New York ) and at UNESCO (Paris), he stresses the fact that it is necessary to move from welfarism to social responsibility. Therefore, from birth, the entire education should be entrusted to local democratic societies.

In order to follow his future thought, you can attend the Summer Session, which regularly takes place every year in August.