Articles
Dr. Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, 1984.
This remarkable dialogue from 1984 has never been published. We’re printing it now in part to provide historical context for a new effort, in which MAPS is participating, to restart LSD psychotherapy research in the United States. [...}
The Liberation by Hearing in the Postmortem Plan: The Tibetan Book of Death
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Evane Ferreira Júnior
The Tibetan Book of Death, or Bardo Thödol, is a funerary text of much more recent origin than its Egyptian counterpart and has incomparably more internal consistency and congruence. […]
Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
The two most powerful psychological forces in human history have been without doubt violence and greed. However, the current global situation has amplified the consequences involved. [...]
Birth Trauma and Its Relation to Mental Illness, Suicide and Ecstasy
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
In one sense this article could be considered somewhat dated since it concerns LSD psychotherapy, a methodology which has not been used clinically for over a quarter of a century. Yet, [...]
Transpersonal Psychology - Brief History of Transpersonal Psychology
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
In the middle of the twentieth century, American psychology was dominated by two major schools - behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Increasing dissatisfaction with these two orientations as adequate approaches [...]
Psychosis and Human Society: a Historical Perspective
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
“The great progress that has been made in the realm of brain anatomy and pathological physiology and the general pre-possession in favor of natural science today have taught us to look, always and everywhere, for material causes, and to rest content once we have found them. [...]
A Experiência da Morte e do Morrer: Aspectos Psicológicos, Filosóficos e Espirituais
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
Seria difícil imaginar um assunto que seja mais universal e mais pessoalmente relevante para cada indivíduo do que a morte e o morrer. No decorrer de nossa vida, todos perderemos conhecidos, amigos e parentes e, eventualmente, enfrentaremos nossa própria morte biológica. […]
Álvaro Jardim and Carmen Maciel Interviewing Stanislav Grof
What did Transpersonal Psychology and your work bring to psychology as a science? The famous American psychologist Abraham Maslow called Transpersonal Psychology the Fourth Force in psychology, which followed behavioralism, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Humanist Psychology. […]
Holotropic Research and Archetypal Astrology
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. – Tradução de Álvaro Jardim
In the final article in this section, Stanislav Grof addresses the interface between transpersonal psychology and the astrological perspective, describing his collaboration with Richard Tarnas and the connections they discovered […]
