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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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