The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis
by Christina Grof, Stanislav Grof (Author)
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Many people are undergoing a profound personal transformation associated with spiritual opening. Under favorable circumstances, this process results in emotional healing, a radical shift in values, and a profound awareness of the mystical dimension of existence. For some, these changes are gradual and relatively smooth, but for others they can be so rapid and dramatic that they interfere with everyday functioning, creating tremendous inner turmoil. Unfortunately, many traditional healthcare show more professionals do not recognize the positive potential of these crises, they often see them as manifestations of mental disease and respond with stigmatizing labels, suppressive drugs, and even institutionalization. In The Stormy Search for the Self, Christina and Stanislav Grof, the world's foremost authorities on the subject of spiritual emergence, draw on years of dramatic personal and professional experience with transformative states to explore these "spiritual emergencies," altered states so powerful they threaten to overwhelm the individual's ordinary reality. This book will provide insights, assurances, and practical suggestions for those who are experiencing or have experienced such a crisis, for their families and friends, and for mental-health professionals. It is also a valuable guide for anyone whose experiences, though untraumatic, may still be disorienting. show lessTags
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This is an interesting book. More from the point of view of assuring people who believe in alternative views of reality that they aren't necessarily insane just seeing the world in a different way. Also interesting in that Mr (actually Dr) Grof is a qualified psychologist and recognises that persons going through this kind of problem may be labeled as clinically suffering from some form of mental illness when that is not the treatment they need.
LA TORMENTOSA BÚSQUEDA DEL SER
Muchas personas pasan por una profunda transformación personal
asociada con una apertura espiritual. Bajo circunstancias favorables
este proceso desemboca en una curación emocional, un cambio
radical de valores y una honda consciencia de la dimensión mística
de la existencia. Para algunos, dichos cambios son paulatinos y
relativamente suaves, pero para otros pueden ser espectaculares
e interferir en su vida cotidiana.
En este libro Stan y Chistina Grof, las autoridades más conocidas
en el campo de las emergencias espirituales, describen y cartografian
con detalle unos estados que la psiquiatría tradicional considera
psicóticos, pero que en otras culturas no solo aceptan sino que
veneran. En esta obra se show more proporcionan sugerencias prácticas y se
ofrece apoyo a los que experimentan o han experimentado crisis de
esta naturaleza. show less
Muchas personas pasan por una profunda transformación personal
asociada con una apertura espiritual. Bajo circunstancias favorables
este proceso desemboca en una curación emocional, un cambio
radical de valores y una honda consciencia de la dimensión mística
de la existencia. Para algunos, dichos cambios son paulatinos y
relativamente suaves, pero para otros pueden ser espectaculares
e interferir en su vida cotidiana.
En este libro Stan y Chistina Grof, las autoridades más conocidas
en el campo de las emergencias espirituales, describen y cartografian
con detalle unos estados que la psiquiatría tradicional considera
psicóticos, pero que en otras culturas no solo aceptan sino que
veneran. En esta obra se show more proporcionan sugerencias prácticas y se
ofrece apoyo a los que experimentan o han experimentado crisis de
esta naturaleza. show less
Oct 7, 2018Spanish
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Stanislav Grof, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has been principal investigator at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague. Chief of Psychedelic Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. He is now professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. show more His 20 books include Beyond the Brain, Psychology of the Future, The Cosmic Genius, and Spiritual Emergency. He live in California. show less
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