Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy

A 2010 academic-press book by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, the psychiatrist and the counsellor who together developed Holotropic Breathwork in the 1970s after legal restriction of the psychedelic research Stanislav Grof had previously conducted. Published by State University of New York Press in its Transpersonal Psychology series, it sets out the technique, accelerated breathing, evocative music and bodywork used to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness, and the theoretical framework, transpersonal psychology, the Grofs built around it. Its strength is that it is the founders' own full statement of the method and its rationale; its limit is that it is not independent research into the method's effects or safety.