Editing Stanislav Grof (section)

== Career ==
Czechoslovakia was the centre of psychedelic research behind the Iron Curtain during the 1950s and 1960s. Grof’s early research in the clinical uses of psychedelic substances was conducted at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was principal investigator of a program that systematically explored the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances.{{sfn|Kaczorowski|2018}}

In 1967, he received a scholarship from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry in New Haven, Connecticut, and was invited by [[Joel Elkes]]{{sfn|Grof|1976|p=3}} to be a Clinical and Research Fellow at [[The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic|Henry Phipps Clinic]], a part of [[Johns Hopkins University#Graduate education|Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], United States. In 1969, he went on to become Chief of Psychiatric Research for the [[Spring Grove Experiment]] at the Research Unit of [[Spring Grove Hospital Center|Spring Grove State Hospital]] (later part of the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore|Maryland Psychiatric Research Center]] where he worked with [[Walter Pahnke]]. In 1969, Grof also became Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

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In 1973 he was invited to the [[Esalen Institute]] in [[Big Sur]], [[California]], and lived there until 1987 as a Scholar-in-Residence, developing his ideas and conducting month-long workshops.{{cn|date=May 2024}} In 1977, Grof was the founding president of the [[International Transpersonal Association]], serving as president for several subsequent decades. He went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the [[California Institute of Integral Studies]], a position he remained in until 2018.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

In May 2020, he launched, with his wife Brigitte Grof, a new training in working with holotropic states of consciousness, the international Grof Legacy Training.{{cn|date=May 2024}}