About The Author

Stanislav Grof was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1931. He studied at the Charles University School of Medicine and received his Ph.D. from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Science. In 1960 he began research into the psychotherapeutic uses of LSD at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague. Dr. Grof moved to the United States in 1967, where he continued his work as Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

More than twenty years spent in the clinical practice of LSD-assisted psychotherapy [as of 1980], and firsthand experience of the major orientations of the field -- the so-called psychedelic, psycholytic, anaclitic and hypnodelic approaches -- have qualified Dr. Grof to write about this subject comprehensively.