Stanislav Grof M.D.
Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist with over sixty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness and one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he also received his scientific training: an M.D. degree from the Charles University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. degree (Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine) from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. He was also granted honorary Ph.D. degrees from the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, and the World Buddhist University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Stanislav Grof “The Opening of the Collective Unconscious”
S & B Grof – The Evolution of Breathwork and The Psychology of the Future
Dr. Grof’s early research in the clinical uses of psychedelic substances was conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was principal investigator of a program that systematically explored the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances. In 1967, he received a scholarship from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry in New Haven, CT, and was invited as Clinical and Research Fellow to the Johns Hopkins University and the Research Unit of Spring Grove Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
In 1969, Dr. Grof became Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University and continued his research as Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville, MD. In 1973, he was invited as Scholar-in-Residence to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed, with his late wife Christina Grof, holotropic breathwork, an innovative form of experiential psychotherapy that is now being used worldwide. Christina Grof died in 2014, her memorial website is www.christina-grof.com
Stanislav Grof is not associated with the Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT) and their trademark Holotropic Breathwork® anymore. In 1974 Stan and his late wife Christina developed the technique of holotropic breathworkat the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and it is now represented and taught under the name Grof® Breathwork .
Since April 2016, he has been happily married to Brigitte Grof. They live together in Germany and travel the inner and outer worlds in tandem. In August 2019 his life’s work encyclopedia ” The Way of the Psychonaut” got published and the documentary film about his life and work got released ” The Way of the Psychonaut – Stan Grof and the journey of consciousness” ( www.thewayofthepsychonaut.com)
Episode 4.2 Cosmic Game
Episode 1.2 Radical Vision
An interview with Stanislav Grof By Rick Archer
In May 2020 Stan and his wife Brigitte Grof launched their new training in working with holotropic states of consciousness the international Grof® Legacy Training. www.grof-legacy-training.com
Official website and source: https://www.stangrof.com/