{"id":33,"date":"2015-09-07T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2019-08-11T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T18:37:56","slug":"petho-sandor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/calatonia-and-subtle-touch\/petho-sandor\/","title":{"rendered":"Peth\u00f6 S\u00e1ndor"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Death does not exist, only the transformation of consciousness.”<\/em><\/p>\n

PHOTO ARCHIVE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

S\u00e1ndor was averse to any form of exaltation of his personality. In his extremely simple lifestyle, deprived of any ostentation, he valued his privacy. Nevertheless, his life story inspired admiration and respect in all those who met him.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1ndor was born in 1916, in Gyertyamos, which was part of Hungary at the time, currently Yugoslavia. He was raised in Also Gad, a city of intense intellectual movements and cultural events. It was probably from this vibrant environment that an interest in arts and music arose. He studied lyric singing and at one point thought of becoming an opera tenor.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1ndor grew in a stable and refined atmosphere, and later graduated from the Medical University of Budapest \u201cPaz Many Peter,\u201d in 1943 specializing in Gynecology and Obstetrics. The beginning of the WWII brought a sequence of painful events that disrupted his, until then, tranquil life.<\/p>\n

The advance of Russians troops forced the family to leave Hungary in April of 1945, in search of safety. On this journey out of Hungary, at a train stop in the countryside, S\u00e1ndor debarked in search of water for his family, which remained aboard. Sadly, the train was mistaken for a military train and was intensely fired upon by the allied forces.<\/p>\n

As the only doctor present, S\u00e1ndor started to attend to numerous injured people, and tragically, the first two victims brought to him were his parents. In light of the severity of their injuries, S\u00e1ndor said: \u201cUnfortunately, there is nothing I can do for them. Bring me the other injured people.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 After caring for the injured, he went to look for his parents, only to find that they had died. During the following winter, whilst living in a refugee camp with his two children and wife Marieta, she fell ill with pneumonia and passed away in less than a week. During that year, S\u00e1ndor lost his wife and parents, his home, his country, and became a single parent for his two children aged two and three years.<\/p>\n

At the time, S\u00e1ndor worked for the Red Cross in the refugee camps. Left with no conventional medical resources due to the war scarcity, S\u00e1ndor began to experiment with touches and gentle manipulations to the extremities of the patients’ body. He initially explored the effects of gentle touches in obstetrics, particularly in cases of circulatory problems \u2013 it was the beginning of Calatonia.\u00a0 His goal was to alleviate symptoms in several conditions, such as phantom limb syndrome, psychosomatic complaints, pain, catatonic states, etc. It was in this intuitive and compassionate manner that he initiated his observations on the effects of gentle therapeutic touches.<\/p>\n

The German soldiers many times requested his help as ‘the doctor who took away the pain, with his hands’. S\u00e1ndor helped them under the specific condition that he remained alone with the patient, to protect his technique and to guarantee that he received the most precious payment at the time \u2013 food \u2013 to be distributed among the other refugees.<\/p>\n

For the following three years after the war, S\u00e1ndor worked in German hospitals where he treated poly-traumatized patients, with the same techniques (gentle touch, Calatonia), but now with patients of the psychological and neuropsychiatric wards. He treated post-war trauma and depression, suicidal ideation, catatonic states, among other issues.<\/p>\n

It was from those years of work experience in post-war hospitals that S\u00e1ndor initiated the \u201cmultidimensional foundation\u201d of his work, further amplified in Brazil:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 (in Brazil) there was an opportunity to study the most recent research about reticular formation, the vegetative representations in the cortex, and the role of peripheral proprioceptors. At the same time, much psychological material was gathered in Brazil by those colleagues who adopted the method, especially in clinical psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the mid 1960s, S\u00e1ndor taught Jungian psychology at the School of Psychology at Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Faculdade de Psicologia da Pontif\u00edcia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica de S\u00e3o Paulo). He also maintained study groups for related themes from somatic techniques (Shultz, Jacobson, Reich, and S\u00e1ndor) to various texts of Jungian psychology (translated by him from German and English into Portuguese), and Western Esotericism.\u00a0 S\u00e1ndor was remarkably knowledgeable of homeopathy, although not a practicing doctor any longer. He spoke fluently (and elegantly) Portuguese, German, Hungarian, and English.<\/p>\n

Married since 1985 to Maria Luiza Sim\u00f5es, also a psychologist and collaborator, S\u00e1ndor divided his time between teaching various groups of professionals and his private patients. A normal day in his life started at 6:30 am with his first patient, and ended at 9:30 pm with his last study group. He usually spent every other weekend and six weeks of summertime in his ranch at Pocinhos do Rio Verde, Minas Gerais, where he recharged in contact with nature, working three to four hours a day in the countryside.<\/p>\n

Curiously, in the beginning of 1991 S\u00e1ndor announced in his study groups that he would have ‘an opportunity to transition’ (pass away) within a year.\u00a0 Always healthy, bright, with a light sense of humor and disposition, S\u00e1ndor died in his sleep in January of 1992, at his ranch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Death does not exist, only the transformation of consciousness.” PHOTO ARCHIVE S\u00e1ndor was averse to any form of exaltation of his personality. In his extremely simple lifestyle, deprived of any ostentation, he valued his privacy. Nevertheless, his life story inspired admiration and respect in all those who met him. S\u00e1ndor was born in 1916, in … Continue lendo Peth\u00f6 S\u00e1ndor<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/423"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatonia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}