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I WANT TO LIVE, LOVE & BE LOVED: a plea for all of us to find true joy in life and real human connection in peace and freedom
Professor Dr. Franz Ruppert is a professor of psychology in Munich, where he runs his own institute for further education and training, alongside his psychotherapy practice. Through hands-on experience, he has developed his Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Theory (IoPT) over the past thirty years of professional work. He has presented his theory, and highly effective therapy method that accompanies it, in ten books so far, and these have been translated into twelve different languages. He works internationally and is one of the leading and best-known trauma therapists in the world.
252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 25, 2021
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November 24, 2022
At the core of who we are, we all want to live, love and be loved.
Tragically, due to the influence of many individual and collective forces, we become split off from both our original impulse and from the pain of having that impulse thwarted.
Layered on top of this unbearable loss, which often occurs in the first years of life (or even prenatally), are survival strategies whose main purpose is to avoid feeling the pain of not being alive, loved and invited to love.
From here arises much of the violence and suffering in our world. We are literally drowning and dying as a world because we are facing our problems with survival strategies (designed to ward of our deepest pain) rather than guided by our healthy selves, with their far greater and more flexible capacity for wisdom, love and rationality.
Psychotherapists and philosophers have pondered hard and long on how to heal back into our humanity, how to emerge from trauma and connect with the original vitality and wholeness that accompanied us into life.
There are no easy answers. But I believe that Franz Ruppert has in many ways pointed us in the right direction and given us a therapy that can be powerfully healing. Imagine, he asks us, if this healing were more universally available, from the political sphere (where trauma and perpetration abound as most of our leaders are deeply split from their lifeforce and hearts) to the family, to the individual.
I would suggest you not read this as a standalone as it builds on Ruppert's earlier work. Some readers have found that this book demands too much of mothers and read alone I could see that - in his other books, he elaborates more deeply on how mothers and fathers are impacted - often through a traumatized and traumatizing society - and through no fault of their own, become sources of intergenerational wounding.
The psychotherapy project inevitably straddles the most intimately personal to the political. I feel richer in my work and self-knowledge, from having met Franz Ruppert though his books and videos, through his years long project of guiding us back to the core of who we are, embodied, loving and compassionate. The road is difficult and fraught, and to a lesser or greater degree, means looking inward and facing our pain (which is why much of his work is done at a group level); the rewards for ourselves and for our world immeasurable.
Tragically, due to the influence of many individual and collective forces, we become split off from both our original impulse and from the pain of having that impulse thwarted.
Layered on top of this unbearable loss, which often occurs in the first years of life (or even prenatally), are survival strategies whose main purpose is to avoid feeling the pain of not being alive, loved and invited to love.
From here arises much of the violence and suffering in our world. We are literally drowning and dying as a world because we are facing our problems with survival strategies (designed to ward of our deepest pain) rather than guided by our healthy selves, with their far greater and more flexible capacity for wisdom, love and rationality.
Psychotherapists and philosophers have pondered hard and long on how to heal back into our humanity, how to emerge from trauma and connect with the original vitality and wholeness that accompanied us into life.
There are no easy answers. But I believe that Franz Ruppert has in many ways pointed us in the right direction and given us a therapy that can be powerfully healing. Imagine, he asks us, if this healing were more universally available, from the political sphere (where trauma and perpetration abound as most of our leaders are deeply split from their lifeforce and hearts) to the family, to the individual.
I would suggest you not read this as a standalone as it builds on Ruppert's earlier work. Some readers have found that this book demands too much of mothers and read alone I could see that - in his other books, he elaborates more deeply on how mothers and fathers are impacted - often through a traumatized and traumatizing society - and through no fault of their own, become sources of intergenerational wounding.
The psychotherapy project inevitably straddles the most intimately personal to the political. I feel richer in my work and self-knowledge, from having met Franz Ruppert though his books and videos, through his years long project of guiding us back to the core of who we are, embodied, loving and compassionate. The road is difficult and fraught, and to a lesser or greater degree, means looking inward and facing our pain (which is why much of his work is done at a group level); the rewards for ourselves and for our world immeasurable.
December 8, 2025
amazing book ❤️❤️❤️
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