Codrin Tapu

Codrin Stefan Tapu (born 1973) is a Romanian psychologist, academic, and author who teaches and writes on the philosophy of psychology, counseling, and spirituality.

Tapu advanced a multi-relational, "hypostatic" view of personality and proposed a materialistic approach to spirituality.

He is the author of Hypostatic Personality: Psychopathology of Doing and Being Made (2001).

During his counseling and psychotherapy practice, he learned that many of our conflicts and relationship problems arise from the fact that we act to please or hurt others, and we feel hurt or pleased by others' actions, or from the fact that we express our feelings in order to change others' minds, and we change our minds as a result of others' feelings. Tapu discovered that what matters most is not what we do, but the relationships between the things we do. Thus, for him, the focus became not the person, but the relationship between parts of person(s). He also discovered that we cannot really change ourselves, we can only change our world, and then, in turn, our world can change us, and that we can be mentally immortal if we escape past, present and future and become masters of our time.