Full name: The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration

Author: Stanislav Grof Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780887065415 0887065414

Here Grof presents a useful model of the psyche--a model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is useful for understanding such phenomena as shamanism, mysticism, psychedelic states, spontaneous visionary experiences, and psychotic episodes. The model is also useful in explaining the dynamics of experiential psychotherapies and a variety of sociopolitical manifestations such as war and revolution. This book might have been entitled Beyond Drugs. The second part describes the principles and process of the non-pharmacological technique developed by the author and his wife, Christina, for self-exploration and for psychotherapy. Grof explores in detail the components of this technique. He describes its method, its effective mechanisms, as well as its goals and potential. Its practice is simple, since it utilizes the natural healing capacity of the psyche. Similar books: Beyond the Brain by Stanislav Grof Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by John C. Lilly LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof The Mind Is Flat by Nick Chater On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow The Psychology of Intelligence by Jean Piaget So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull A Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell Love Is Stronger Than Death by Stanley M. Giannet The Trauma Spectrum by Robert C. Scaer Can Love Last? by Stephen A. Mitchell The Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller