The Stormy Search for the Self : A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis [Inscribed x2]
Grof, Christina and Stanislav
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990. First edition. 8vo; blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. ix, 274pp., with bibliography. Bumping to base of spine and bottom tips; board just showing through at fore-edge of front corner. Else very good in a very good jacket, unclipped ("$19.95"), with foxing to interior perimeters, light wear at head of spine. Signed and inscribed in year of publication by each of the authors on ffep.
Presentation copy individually inscribed by both authors to American talk show host Larry King (1933-2021). Stanislav Grof (b. 1931) is a Czech-born psychiatrist notable for his groundbreaking early studies utilizing LSD. With his wife Christina, Grof later developed the practice of Holotropic Breathwork, meant to induce altered mental states through patterns of intentional breathing. The present volume draws on the Grof's extensive experience with "transformative states to explore "spiritual emergence" and its complications and vicissitudes, for which they have coined the term spiritual emergency." N. B. This work with little discussion of psychedelics as such, though broadly informed by that vein of Grof's research. Examples of Grof's signature rather uncommon in the trade, let alone with such interesting association.
