Brief
Biography
Professor
Doctor
Georgi
Lozanov,
M.
D.
is
a Bulgarian psychiatrist
– psychotherapist,
brain
physiologist
and
an
educator. He is the creator
of the science Suggestology and its application in pedagogy – Suggestopedia.
Suggestopedia is the pedagogy operating on the level of the reserves of mind,
tapped in a new organisation of the teaching – learning communication. His
methodology was oficially observed by a 25 expert commision from UNESCO in 1978,
evaluated as a superior teaching method and recommended for application all over
the world. As a result, he was detained under home arrest for the period 1980
– 1989 until the political changes in Bulgaria.
He
created
and
directed
the
State
Suggestology
Research
Institute
in
Sofia
, Bulgaria
(1966 -
1984); The Centre for
Suggestology and Development of Personality at the Sofia University “ St
Climent Ohridski”; The International Centre for Desuggestology in Vienna,
Austria; The International Centre for Teacher Training in Voralberg, Austria.
At
the
moment,
he
is
still
working
on
the
development
of
the
theory
and
practice
of
suggestopedia
as well as training
teachers from all over the world.
Suggestopedia
created a new vision on education, where for any methodology to be successful ,
it should first bear in mind the psycho – psychotherapeutical considerations.