Stanley Krippner

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Affiliated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies, is a Fellow in five APA divisions, and past-president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY. He is co-author of Extraordinary Dreams (SUNY, 2002), The Mythic Path, 3rd ed. (Energy Psychology Press, 2006), Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans (Greenwood, 2007), The Voice of Rolling Thunder (Bear/Inner Traditions, 2012), and Understanding Suicide's Allure (Praeger, 2021), and co-editor of The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective (Greenwood, 2003), Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (APA, 2000), The Shamanic Powers of Rolling Thunder (Bear/Inner Traditions, 2016), Integrated Health Care for the Traumatized (Roman & Littlefield, 2019), and Holistic Treatment in Mental Health (McFarland, 2020).

Stanley has conducted workshops and seminars in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, and at several congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association. He is an advisory board member for the International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Unitaria (Prague). He holds faculty appointments at the Universidade Holistica Internacional (Brasilia) and the Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Ciudad Juarez). He has given invited addresses for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the School for Diplomatic Studies, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the Society for Psychological Science. In 2002 he was the recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of International Psychology.