Description
New York: Dutton Paperback, 1977. XIII, 240 pages. Light wear to edges else clean and solid copy
First edition of this work blending insights from a clinical program on psychedelic end-of-life therapy with broader anthropo-cultural perspectives on death and its role in life. Grof (b. 1931) is a Czech-born psychiatrist notable for his groundbreaking early studies with LSD. Halifax (b. 1942) is an American anthropologist and Zen Buddhist teacher. With an introduction by Swiss American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), author of On Death and Dying (1969). An important work in the drug canon–even more so the literature of thanatology
