Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with more than thirty years
of research experience in nonordinary states of consciousness. He
was born and educated in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and received an
M.D. from Prague's Charles University School of Medicine, where he
specialized in psychiatry. He was the principle investigator for a
program at the Psychiatric Research Institute that explored the
potential of psychedelic therapy. For his dissertation on this
subject, he was awarded a Ph.D. by the Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences.
In 1967 he was invited to Johns Hopkins University as a clinical
and research fellow and to the research unit of Spring Grove State
Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, where he continued his psychadelic
research. In 1969 he was offered the position of chief of
psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
and of assistant professor of psychology at Henry Phipps Clinic.
The research team he headed systematically explored the value of
psychedelic therapy in neurotics, alcoholics, drug addicts, and
terminal cancer patients.
Stanislav continued these functions until 1973, when he moved to
California and became scholar in residence at the Esalen Institute
in Big Sur. Since that time, he has focused on exploring the
potential of experimental psychotherapy without drugs, in addition
to writing and conducting seminars worldwide. He is one of the
founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and
the founding president of the International Transpersonal
Association. He has published more than ninety papers in
professional journals and is the author of Realms of the Human
Unconscious, The Human Encounter with Death, LSD Psychotherapy,
Beyond the Brain, and The Adventure of Self-Discovery. He was also
editor of the volumes Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science and Human
Survival and Consciousness Evolution.
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