Stanley Krippner

Stanley Krippner is a psychologist and an executive faculty member and Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He has been director of the Kent State University Child Study Center and director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory. He is an internationally known humanistic psychologist, having written extensively on dreams, altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, shamanism, dissociation, and parapsychological subjects. Krippner was President of Division 32 of the American Psychological Association from 1980 - 1981. He also served as president of division 30, the Society for Psychological Hypnosis, and is a Fellow of four APA divisions. In 2013 Krippner received the American Psychological Association [APA] Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Humanistic Psychology and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis Human Treasure Award. His most recent books include The Voice of Rolling Thunder: A Medicine Man's Wisdom for Walking the Red Road (with Sidian Morning Star Jones) and Demystifying Shamans and Their World: A Multidisciplinary Study (with Adam Rock).