On the Archetypal Nature of Bad Trips and Freakouts A Review of : "Confrontation With the Unconscious: Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychedelic Experience" by Scott J. Hill Danny Wedding, Peter H Addy PsycCRITIQUES, June 16, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 24, Article 4 © 2014 American Psychological Association In 1967 Scott J. Hill had a terrifying and traumatic experience after taking LSD, experiencing “the depths of madness and hell” (p. xiii). He became suicidal and dissociated, and he wondered whether he had gone insane. Over the next four decades, he struggled with the terror he felt during that experience; he could not come to terms with [...]
Lire la suiteThe Consciousness Research of Stanislav Grof : A Cosmic Portal Beyond Individuality By Richard Yensen, Ph.D. and Donna A. Dryer, M.D., M.P.H. ©1998 Richard Yensen & Donna Dryer I. Introduction Stanislav Grof began his research in Prague, Czechoslovakia, as a psychiatric resident, in the late 1950’s. His initial observations seemed to confirm and offer a laboratory proof for many of the basic tenets of Freudian psychoanalytic thought. At that time his conclusion was politically unsettling because psychoanalysis was repressed in the iron curtain countries. Forty years later the outcome of Grof’s continued research is a theoretical framework for understanding human consciousness. His theory has [...]
Lire la suitePsychedelic Experiential Pharmacology : Pioneering Clinical Explorations with Salvador Roquet (How I Came to All of This : Ketamine, Admixtures and Adjuvants, Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda Too) An Interview with Richard Yensen Philip E. Wolfson International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2014, 33, (2), 160-174. Richard Yensen was a research fellow at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center from 1972 to 1976. He studied psychedelic psychotherapy with Stanislav Grof, M.D. and other senior staff. During this time he treated patients with substance abuse disorders, cancer, neurosis, and other health professionals seeking a training experience. Dr. Yensen did his Ph.D. dissertation on the use of MDA in [...]
Lire la suiteBook Review : The psychedelic religion of mystical consciousness, Rick Strassman William A. Richards Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences Columbia University Press, New York, 2016, 244 pp. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-231-17406-0 Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2018 Doi : 10.1556/2054.2018.003 With an extreme range of terms for psychedelic drugs – from “schizotoxic” to “entheogenic” – “psychedelic,” nonetheless remains the most salient one. These substances manifest or disclose aspects of the mind of those who take them as well as the mind of those who study them. Proponents for the innumerable terms for these drugs are all able to adduce supportive evidence. Necessarily, this evidence is a subjective experience, [...]
Lire la suiteLSD Psychotherapy Stanislas GROF Hunter House Ed., 1979 LIST OF CONTENTS 1. History of LSD Therapy The Discovery of LSD and its Psychedelic Effects Early Laboratory and Clinical LSD Research Therapeutic Experimentation With LSD Studies of Chemotherapeutic Properties of LSD LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy The Need for a Comprehensive Theory of LSD Therapy 2. Critical Variables in LSD Therapy Pharmacological Effects of LSD Personality of the Subject Personality of the Therapist or Guide Set and Setting of the Sessions 3. Psycholytic and Psychedelic Therapies with LSD : Towards an Integration of Approaches The Search for an Effective Technique of LSD Psychotherapy Advantages and Drawbacks of the Psycholytic Approach Pros and Cons of Psychedelic Therapy 4. Principles of LSD Psychotherapy The Preparation Period Psychedelic Sessions Integration [...]
Lire la suitePsycholytic and Psychedelic Therapy Research 1931-1995 : A Complete International Bibliography Torsten Passie Laurentius Publishers, Hannover, Germany, 1997 Kleine bibliographische Reihe, vol. 3. (Ed. Raimund Dehmlow), ISSN 0941-6617 ISBN 3-931614-83-2 (cloth), ISBN 3-931614-84-0 (pbk) Preface I. Introduction 9 II. Organization of the Bibliography 21 III. Bibliography 1. General Approach and Basic Research 23 2. Psycholytic Therapy 42 3. Psychedelic Therapy 70 IV. Major Scientific Conferences on the Subject 88 V. Major Bibliographic Sources 89 Author Index 90 Subject Index 95 About the Authors 102
Lire la suiteFreudian, Jungian, Grofian — Steps Toward the Psychedelic Humanities Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2017, Vol. 49, No. 2, 19 p. Copyright 2017, Transpersonal Institute ABSTRACT: Stanislav Grof’s map of the mind offers transpersonalists — and further, humanists and all professions working with the human phenomenon — a new kind of intellectual effort. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychologies enriched 20th Century intellectual life, Grofian is enriching the 21st. Grof’s psychedelic-derived theory promotes cultural interpretation, psychocriticism, curricular enrichment, and new methods of humanistic research. The theory’s four-level map of the human mind has received moderate attention primarily by confirming other [...]
Lire la suitePsychedelic Induced Transpersonal Experiences, Therapies, and Their Implications for Transpersonal Psychology Thomas B. Roberts and Michael J. Winkelman Chapter 25 - The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, First Edition. Edited by Harris L. Friedman and Glenn Hartelius. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Psychedelics and other natural and synthetic substances have an ability to induce a range of transpersonal experiences. The predominance of spiritually-related experiences from these substances has led to the development of the concept of entheogen— reflecting their potential to produce an internal experience of communing with god. The similarity of the drug-induced transpersonal [...]
Lire la suiteThe Consciousness Research of Stanislav Grof : A Cosmic Portal Beyond Individuality Richard Yensen & Donna Dryer 1998 I. Introduction Stanislav Grof began his research in Prague, Czechoslovakia, as a psychiatric resident, in the late 1950’s. His initial observations seemed to confirm and offer a laboratory proof for many of the basic tenets of Freudian psychoanalytic thought. At that time his conclusion was politically unsettling because psychoanalysis was repressed in the iron curtain countries. Forty years later the outcome of Grof’s continued research is a theoretical framework for understanding human consciousness. His theory has evolved into a wide-ranging description of the relationship between the individual [...]
Lire la suitePsychedelic therapy in the Czech Republic : A theoretical concept or a realistic goal ? Zuzana Postranecka, Čestmir Vejmola and Filip Tyls Journal of Psychedelic Studies DOI: 10.1556/2054.2019.003 Abstract Psychedelic research has been associated with the Czech Republic since the early 19th century and, after a long period of involuntary dormancy, it has recently gained new opportunities to follow up on its roots and evolve. This article briefly describes the history of psychedelic research in the Czech Republic, summarizes the role of the UN Drug Conventions, and discusses the Czech and international legislation pertaining to psychedelics. The discussion focuses on the dependence/abuse potential of classical [...]
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