Stanislav Grof is one of the most important figures among the founders of transpersonal psychology. His life and the development of his ideas are described in his book, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, which was translated into many languages, including Japanese. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He moved to New York in 1963 where he continued his training at the University of Chicago and Columbia University
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In 1968 he received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in American studies and in 1970 he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at the C.
G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland where he spent two years studying under Professors C. G.
Jung and Jolande Jacobi. In 1976 he joined the faculty at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and in 1980 he became a full professor there in the department of clinical psychiatry and a fellow of the Institute for Applied and Integrative Psychology in New York City.