Expanding Grof's concept of the perinatal: Deepening the inquiry into frightening near-death experiences.

To account for the vivid, often transpersonal phenomenology of perinatal experiences reported in Stanislav Grof's work, the authors argue that the patient's consciousness must be understood as extending beyond the individual self. This implies that such experiences cannot be fully explained by conventional psychological models limited to the personal subject.

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Abstract

Study suggesting that in order to explain the phenomenology of perinatal experience, as described in the work of Stanislav Grof, we must hypothesize that the patient in these instances has expanded beyond the individual subject.