Dr. Stanislav Grof

<p>Amongst the thinkers who are held to have set the stage for transpersonal studies are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung">Carl Jung</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Rank" title="Otto Rank">Otto Rank</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow" title="Abraham Maslow">Abraham Maslow</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Assagioli" title="Roberto Assagioli">Roberto Assagioli</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_1-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-miller-1">[2]</a></sup> Research by Vich<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup> suggests that the earliest usage of the term "transpersonal" can be found in lecture notes which William James had prepared for a semester at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in 1905-6. The meaning then, different from today's usage, was in the context of James’ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_empiricism" title="Radical empiricism">radical empiricism</a> in which there exists an intimate relation between a perceiving subject and perceived object, and all objects are dependent on being perceived by someone.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup> Another important figure in the establishment of transpersonal psychology was Abraham Maslow. Maslow had already published work regarding human peak experiences, and was one of the people, together with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof" title="Stanislav Grof">Stanislav Grof</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl" title="Viktor Frankl">Viktor Frankl</a>, who suggested the term "transpersonal" for the emerging field. Gradually, during the 1960s, the term "transpersonal" was associated with a distinct school of psychology within the humanistic psychology movement.<sup id="cite_ref-chinen_7-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-chinen-7">[8]</a></sup>

In 1969, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof and Anthony Sutich were among the initiators behind the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, the leading academic journal in the field.<sup id="cite_ref-chinen_7-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-chinen-7">[8]</a></sup> This was soon to be followed by the founding of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Transpersonal_Psychology" title="Association for Transpersonal Psychology" class="mw-redirect">Association for Transpersonal Psychology</a> (ATP) in 1972. Past presidents of the association include Alyce Green, James Fadiman, Frances Vaughan, Arthur Hastings, Daniel Goleman, Robert Frager, Ronald Jue, Jeanne Achterberg and Dwight Judy. In the 1980s and 90s the field developed through the works of such authors as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Houston" title="Jean Houston">Jean Houston</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof" title="Stanislav Grof">Stanislav Grof</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber" title="Ken Wilber">Ken Wilber</a>, Michael Washburn, Frances Vaughan, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Walsh" title="Roger Walsh">Roger Walsh</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Krippner" title="Stanley Krippner">Stanley Krippner</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Murphy_%28author%29" title="Michael Murphy (author)">Michael Murphy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tart" title="Charles Tart">Charles Tart</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Lukoff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Lukoff (page does not exist)">David Lukoff</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Nalimov" title="Vasily Nalimov">Vasily Nalimov</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margret_Rueffler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margret Rueffler (page does not exist)">Margret Rueffler</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart_Sovatsky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stuart Sovatsky (page does not exist)">Stuart Sovatsky</a>. While Wilber has been considered an influential writer and theoretician in the field, he has since personally dissociated himself from the movement in favor of what he calls an integral approach.

By common consent, the following branches are considered to be transpersonal psychological schools: various depth psychology approaches including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology" title="Analytical psychology">Analytical psychology</a>, based on Carl Jung, and the Archetypal psychology of James Hillman; the spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_psychology#cite_note-8">[9]</a></sup>; psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli; Zen Transactional Psychotherapy created by Robert M. Anthony (Creative Psychotherapy, 1976), and the theories of Otto Rank, Abraham Maslow, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Grof" title="Stanislav Grof">Stanislav Grof</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber" title="Ken Wilber">Ken Wilber</a>, Michael Washburn and Charles Tart.

Storming Heaven pg. 371ff - Spring Grove.&nbsp;

Spring Grove State Hosp., Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, <i>Psychedelic Healing,</i> p. 139, by Goldsmith</p>

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