"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Experience, Medical, Psychoanalysis, School

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"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."

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"The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world."

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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

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"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

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