Recently an interview with Chuck Spezzano came to my attention. I am not an expert in German, but I recognize a snowjob in any language when I see it. This post had some interesting details.
Spezzano granted an interview, apparently last summer, with
Gesund. The interview was published in German. Here's the link:
http://gesund-dasmagazin.de/artikel/dr-chuck-spezzano-arbeitet-weltweit-erfolgreich-mit-seiner-therapie-der-%E2%80%9Evision%C3%A4renHere it is in English:
With world-wide success, Dr Chuck Spezzano works with his therapy of „Visionary Psychology“He is a doctor of psychology and a visionary of holistic healing concepts. Until now, he authored 35 books and is a guru and companion for many thousand persons world-wide thinking spiritually: US citizen Dr Chuck Spezzano, born in New York state, but Hawaiian and cosmopolitan of choice since many years.
He comes to Europe several times every year to teach his philosophy in seminars of several days' duration.
We are sitting on the terrace of a hotel in the idyllic town of Marktheidenfeld on the river Main. Together with his wife Lency – whose family by the way originally came from the vicinity of Hanau – he will do a seminar on nearby Burg Rothenfels. „This time we again have a lot of couples, but also some very ill persons looking for an impulse for healing in our seminars“, „Doc“ Spezzano reports. Not affected by the caprice of weather around us, the American – who on principle will only be seen wearing his colorful Hawaiian shirts – spreads his world view in front of us. His doctrine, published in millions of copies world-wide, the „Psychology of Vision“, is based on three main elements: relationships, leadership qualities, and spirituality.
Spiritual HealingInterview with Dr Chuck Spezzano
GESUND: What do these three basis elements mean within your doctrine?
Dr Spezzano: It is essential to heal all relationships in our life. Because this mental healing decides our happiness in life. It either makes us thrive or makes us wither. Leadership qualities – this term only too often has negative connotations. But I understand it as an inner strength manifesting in outward actions. To be able to help others is an effective way to help ourselves. Commitment and operational performance for a social community takes strong minds. Spirituality stands for the goal of our way in life. We need to recognize ourselves as spiritual beings, not just as intellectual beings in this universe.
G: How did you discover this path of therapy?
S: I am a trained doctor of psychology. My holistic way of therapy I slowly worked out with the Navy and in meeting many soldiers addicted to drugs. I also practiced hypnosis and NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). My encounters and my own therapy work with many shamans have gone into these development processes, too. My vision always was there must be a quick, easy-to-learn and simple access to our subconscious. Then one day I read the book „A Course in Miracles“. And there was everything I had sensed and reviewed myself: this life is about love, and above all about relationships. This was the key. From then on, my wife Lency and I developed our own therapy which we spread worldwide.
G: What is your therapeutic approach? How does Psychology of Vision help me when I'm ill, or when I have problems on the job or in my private life?
CS: Same as every other physician or therapist, I do a detailed anamnesis. I take my time talking to seminar participants. Some years ago, a very old woman with a tumor the size of a football came to my seminar. I talked to her about her life for a long time. Just taking the time listening to her. This revealed that, already during her childhood, she had to deal with brutality and sexual abuse which continued during her marriage and in other relationships. Her relationships – to me they were the key for the therapeutic approach and for the old lady, they were the key to healing. It was necessary to reprocess the nearest human contacts of her childhood, and that's what we did. A few weeks later, her tumour was reduced to the size of a tennis ball and then shrank even more. Unsolved psychological conflicts in relationships cause illness. Even decades later.
G: Does your success also base on your own experience?
CS: That's exactly so. Before I met my wife Lency, I always had difficult, destructive relations. When I developed my therapy it was clear that I had to go back into my own relationships mentally and emotionally, in particular the primordial one to my parents. During the complete time I felt the pain of my childhood and was able to heal it. - You see, this still causes a few tears with me today... (short pause of thinking). But these don't cause negative, afflicting emotions any longer. Just emotions for my parents.
G: Dear Dr Spezzano, I thank you for this conversation.
CS: May I add something personal?
G: Please do!
CS: Take off this beautiful ring you wear on your pinkie. When you wear a tight ring on that finger all the time, this is no good energy for your heart meridian which goes exactly through this finger. The energy of the heart, the most important energy we have, cannot flow freely this way. Just a little hint...
/Andrea Thoma
Notes:
"He comes to Europe several times every year to teach his philosophy in seminars of several days' duration." But mostly he comes to sell his books. Spezzano tailors his seminars to wrap around the topic of whatever latest book he is trying to sell. He admitted this in one of his Youtube appearances.
"He is a doctor of psychology" from a school that was unaccredited by the APA and the ersatz degree prevented him from ever qualifying for being officially licensed as a "psychologist." The State of Hawaii nailed Spezzano in 2004 for pretending to be a psychologist, yet the fake description of his credentials is heralded in many merchandising and promotional sites to this day, especially in Germany. Chuck Spezzano profits from false advertising.
"I am a trained doctor of psychology." His degree is not medical, nor is it accredited. In the USA he is very far from being considered a real psychologist.
http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/charles-lee-spezzano-ph-d-in_28.html"I also practiced hypnosis and NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming)." Spezzano has admitted using hypnosis in the past. Although several of Spezzano's spinoffs have credited Spezzano with using NLP, this is the only case I have seen where he himself is so clear about having employed this pseudoscience.
"My encounters and my own therapy work with many shamans have gone into these development processes, too." This is not the first time Spezzano has brought up these "shamans" he supposedly studied with, but never have any of them been named. Who were they?
"Same as every other physician or therapist, I do a detailed anamnesis." Spezzano is certainly not qualified to be a physician or therapist and he insults these occupations by insinuating his way into their ranks.
"Some years ago, a very old woman with a tumor the size of a football came to my seminar. I talked to her about her life for a long time. Just taking the time listening to her. This revealed that, already during her childhood, she had to deal with brutality and sexual abuse which continued during her marriage and in other relationships. Her relationships – to me they were the key for the therapeutic approach and for the old lady, they were the key to healing. It was necessary to reprocess the nearest human contacts of her childhood, and that's what we did. A few weeks later, her tumor was reduced to the size of a tennis ball and then shrank even more. Unsolved psychological conflicts in relationships cause illness. Even decades later."
This matches closely with his tale on his Youtube,
Can AIDS Be Healed:
http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/10/can-aids-be-healed.html"I got started with this because a good friend of mine who was in her late 60s when I was a young man, she had this inoperable cancer, she had a tumor as big as a rugby ball, and in one healing exercise, in a workshop, it went from the size of a rugby to the size of a softball. And it was still inoperable. Six months later she met her first doctor who had sent her to an oncologist and he looked at her and said, "What are you doing still alive?" And then he realized what he had said and then she began to tell him, "Well, I'm working with nutrition and I'm doing spiritual healing and I'm doing psychological ..." And he goes, "Don't tell me, just whatever you're doing, keep doing it." because he just couldn't believe this woman was still alive."
Who was she? Documentary proof please.
Spezzano can have his cake and eat it too here. He can claim he doesn't cure cancer himself "people cure themselves" yet he says his methods are what saved them. If they fail to be cured it is their fault, not his. But if they are cured, he can rush in to claim credit.
Check out the "Healing Metaphors" for more Louise Hay style blame the victim guilt trips by Chuck Spezzano:
http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/10/healing-metaphors-z.htmlLike the
Trainers Manual, it is interesting what Psychology of Vision will reveal in German but not in English. I wonder why?
