This ground-breaking book extends and critiques Stanislav Grofs work on psycho-spiritual transformation by considering whether adolescents can experience spiritual emergency. Grof contends that the human psyche, stimulated by new material originating from loss experiences will spontaneously reorganise itself. This process either unfolds gently as spiritual emergence or overwhelms the individual as a spiritual emergency. By examining the deeply introspective soliloquies of Shakespeares Hamlet through the lens of Grofs extended cartography of the psyche the author reveals extraordinarily vivid...