Wayne Dyer

Wayne W. Dyer ( born May 10, 1940 in Detroit ( Michigan)) is an American psychotherapist, author and speaker on issues of self-discovery and self-realization (English Self- Development ).

Dyer has published over 30 books, lectures and talks on radio and television shows about his insights. In German-speaking countries it is mainly through the classics of life coaching literature " The sticking point. The art is not to be unhappy. Twelve steps to overcome our mental problem areas. " Become known.

Biography

Wayne W. Dyer's parents are Melvin Lyle and Hazel Irene Dyer. He grew up in Detroit and graduated in 1958 at the Denby High School. According to the university level qualifications he opened a psychotherapy practice and published in scientific journals articles. Dyer lives in Maui, Hawaii. Seven of his eight children live together with him and his third wife Marcelene. Dyer, 2009, announced that he has leukemia.

The sticking point

After he was approached by a publishing agent, Dyer Your Erroneous Zones published in 1976 ( " The sticking point "). It is a self-help book that focuses on one's own strengths and weaknesses. The book was a bestseller. With 30 to 35 million copies sold, it is one of the successful books for printed copies.

Positions

Dyer believes that many neurotic problems through work inhibition about. He therefore advocates to overcome psychological problem areas by choice and their own efforts. He vividly shows the cause and uselessness of fears and self-doubt and encourages you to make your own actions of social, family and religious conventions free. The key is here is that the success or failure of one's actions will not be linked with the personal self-worth.

Dyers philosophy encompasses all religions indirectly, as a spiritual source and as more or less modern brand of solipsism. "I am convinced that the truth is a truth until you have categorized them and then becomes a lie. I do not believe that Jesus taught the Christian faith, Jesus taught kindness, love, compassion and peace. What I people saying is do not be Christian, it does not Jesus. Buddhists silk, it does according to the Buddha. "

Criticism

Critics accuse Dyer about to make his insights from a "school" and not even to live coherently afterwards. Since the early 1990s, he deals with spirituality, specifically with the Daoism ( Taoism ). There was a risk to be banked by his listeners as " spiritual master ".