Curriculum Vitae - Stan Grof, M.D., Ph.D.
Education
| 1950-56 | Student at the Charles University School of Medicine in Prague, Czechoslovakia. |
| 1956 | Graduation from Charles University, M.D. degree. |
| 1956-59 | Psychiatric residency in the State Mental Hospital in Kosmonosy near Prague. |
| 1959 | A three-month course in the Postgraduate Medical Training Center in Prague and specialization examination in psychiatry. |
| 1961-67 | Psychoanalytic training (personal training analysis with Dr. T. Dosuzkov, former President of the Czechoslovakian Psychoanalytic Association, attendance of psychoanalytic seminars, and case conferences. |
| 1964 | Fellowship from the Soviet Ministry of Public Health to study Soviet psychiatry, psychotherapy, and research in experimental neuroses in Leningrad, Moscow, and Suchu-mi, Georgia. |
| 1965 | Completion of the postgraduate training at the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, dissertation on the clinical uses of psychedelic drugs, and the Ph.D. degree (Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine). |
| 1966 | Examination for the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Certified in October 1966. ECFMG #81377. |
| 1967-69 | Fellowship for advanced research from the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry in New Haven, Connecticut. Clinical and Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1971 | Maryland Medical License Examination at the Board of Medical Examiners of Maryland. Certified in January 1971. Lic. Reg. Cert. No. D 9076. |
Positions Held
| 1994 | Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. |
| 1987 | Self-employed, conducting professional training in Holotropic BreathworkTM and transpersonal psychology, lecturing, and writing. |
| 1973-87 | Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Since 1983, also Member of the Board of Trustees. |
| 1969-73 | Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville, Maryland, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1967-69 | Clinical and Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University and at the Research Unit of the Spring Grove State Hospital in Catonsville, MD. |
| 1961-67 | Research Psychiatrist in the Department of
the Study of Psychogenic Disorders and Psychotherapy of the Psych-iatric
Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 1. Participation in a team studying the mechanisms of psychogenic disorders and psychotherapy. 2. Principal Investigator in a project studying the possibilities of the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs for personality diagnostics and therapy of psychogenic disorders. |
| 1960 | Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate Medical Training Center in Prague, Czechoslovakia. |
| 1959-60 | Out-Patient Psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Clinic of the National Institute of Health in Prague. |
| 1957-60 | Participating researcher in a multidimensional dynamic study of psychedelic drugs and anticholinergic delirogens in the Research Institute in Prague-Krc. |
| 1956-59 | Clinical psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Hospital in Kos-monosy near Prague. |
| 1954-56 | Student volunteer at the Psychiatric Department of the Charles University School of Medicine in Prague. Participation in clinical LSD research and the study of artistic expression of psychiatric patients. |
Awards & Honors
| 1959 | Kuffner Award for Psychiatry (Czechoslovakian national award granted annually for the most important contribution in the field of psychiatry) for the study of Benactyzine and other anticholinergic delirogens (shared with Drs. M. Vojtechovsky;, V. Vítek, and K. Rysánek). |
| 1964 | Fellowship from the Soviet Ministry of Public Health in Moscow to study Soviet psychiatry, psychotherapy, and experimental neuroses in monkeys. |
| 1967-69 | Fellowship from the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry in New Haven, Connecticut, for advanced research in psychedelic therapy. |
| 1982 | Consultant for the experiential sequences in the Hollywood science-fiction movie Brainstorm (with Christina Grof). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Director Douglas Trumbull. |
| 1988 | Consultant for experiential sequences in the Hollywood science-fiction Millenium (with Christina Grof), producer John Foreman. |
| 1992 | Consultant for the BMW Museum "Horizons in Time" in Munich, Germany. |
| 1993 | Honorary Award from the Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP) for major contributions to and development of the field of transpersonal psychology given at the occasion of the 25th Anniversary Convocation held at Asilomar, California, on August 25-29, 1993. |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Burlington College, Burlington, Vermont. |
| 2007 | >>Vision 97<< Award from the Vaclav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague |
Honorary Positions
| 1980-83 | Board Member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP). |
| 1982-83 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. |
| 1982-85 | Board Member of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA). |
| 1989-2004 | President of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) and coordinator of International conferences in Santa Rosa, California, Eugene, Oregon, Atlanta, Georgia, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Manaus, Brazil, and Palm Springs, California |
| Editor of the Re-Vision Journal, and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Near-Death Studies, Journal for the Study of Consciousness, Synthesis, and Psychedelic Review. |
Major Fields of Research Interest
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