Codrin Țapu
Romanian writer and psychologit
Codrin Ștefan Țapu (born 17 December 1973) is a Romanian writer, psychologist, and aphorist. His work is focused on striking a middle ground between spiritual- and material-based belief systems, in the context of the multiple dimensions and nuances of the self.
Life and career
Țapu was born in Bucharest, and attended the University of Bucharest, where he earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in psychology. From 1998, he worked as an instructor at the psychology department of Hyperion University. In 2000, he was awarded there the chair of lecturer extraordinary. In 2006, he was appointed an associate professor of psychology at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, being the first chair of the postgraduate module of counseling.
Work
Țapu's work addresses the multidimensionality of the self and the integrative study of a person. By integrating spirituality with materialism, he proposed a perspective of interconnected spiritual support systems.
Țapu summarized the hypostatic approach to personality in his 2001 book. The hypostatic model, originated in mathematical logic by Charles Sanders Peirce with his "hypostatic abstraction", argues, in Țapu's view, that the person presents herself in a multitude of different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities she relates to, including different epistemological approaches to the study of personality.
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