Published: 2023-12-31

The beginnings of prenatal psychology. Stanislav Grof and his perinatal matrices – a manifestation of genius or periphery of science?

Emilia Lichtenberg-Kokoszka
Studia nad Rodziną
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/snr.2023.61.1.4

Abstract

Stanislav Grof and his concepts almost unknown in Poland, enjoy in the world a large, though ambiguous, fame. As one of the pioneers of prenatal psychology and co-founder of transpersonal psychology, physician, psychiatrist and therapist, he combines in his theories biographical elements with mystical and transpersonal. This article is an attempt to approximate created by him the concept of the perinatal matrices and controversy arisen around his theory. Such action seems justified in the context of the fact that the His concepts often are the basis for the next theories and therapeutic methods that do not indicate their original origin. Many of his claims infiltrated to scientific and colloquial knowledge in a significant way, shaping the opinion about the perinatal period.

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Stanisław Grof’s concepts, prenatal psychology, transpersonal psychology, perinatal matrix, therapeutic methods

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Lichtenberg-Kokoszka, E. (2023). The beginnings of prenatal psychology. Stanislav Grof and his perinatal matrices – a manifestation of genius or periphery of science?. Studia Nad Rodziną, 27(61(1), 37–45. https://doi.org/10.21697/snr.2023.61.1.4

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