François Grunwald

François Grunwald, a renowned psychiatrist and tireless seeker of truth born in Vienna in 1917, was a fighter for Free France during World War II, a student of G.I. Gurdjieff after the war and became a leader of Gurdjieff groups in Germany. His autobiography was published for the first time in France in 2017, decades after Grunwald’s passing, under the title: A Path Out of Exile, From Freud to Gurdjieff. The present book is the translation of the third part, which centers on Grunwald’s encounter and work with G.I. Gurdjieff and his circle of pupils in Paris after World War II and until Gurdjieff’s death in 1949. It is likely to be the last direct eyewitness account of this extraordinary time of spiritual search.