Stanislav Grof and Holotropic Psychology
Stanislav Grof: transpersonal psychology co-founder, holotropic breathwork, cartography of the psyche, spiritual emergency.
Stanislav Grof (b. 1931) co-founded transpersonal psychology and mapped holotropic (toward wholeness) states of consciousness.
Contributions
- Holotropic breathwork — non-drug access to expanded states
- Perinatal matrices — birth-related psychic templates
- Spiritual emergency — crisis as potential transformation
Major works: Realms of the Human Unconscious, The Holotropic Mind, Spiritual Emergency (ed.).