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...drug-manufacturer is responsible for determining whether the psychiatrist or psychologist is properly qualified, on the basis of questionnaires filed by the researcher. Sandoz Pharmaceutical of New Jersey, which accomplished the first synthesis of LSD, is providing the psilocybin used by Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Timothy Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, in their research on graduate student subjects...
...Doors to Perception, Aldous Huxley is concerned with the social applications of the so-called Budda drugs (mescaline, psilocybin, LSD). He refers to society's need for escapes. The escape motif should not be emphasized. For most subjects the opposite seems true. Confrontation, intense (and often painful) contact with reality more accurately characterize the experience...
...others equipped to lead group therapy), Dr. Keating can use only broad-stroke methods with the 700 patients rated as good treatment prospects. Chief Psychiatrist Knut H. Houck uses a variety of tranquilizing drugs for agitated patients and psychic energizers for the depressed. He hopes soon to try LSD-25 (TIME, March 28) to make psychotherapy more effective, especially in narcotic addiction and alcoholism...
...drug's effects begin to show within 15 minutes to two hours; a single LSD-psychotherapy session may last five to six hours. Half an hour before it ends, the doctors give an antagonist drug (usually secobarbital or chlorpromazine) to cut short LSD's lingering effects; they make sure that the patient does not drive home and they often prescribe sedatives for the next couple of days...
Even with all these safeguards, say Drs. Chandler and Hartman, LSD treatment can still be dangerous unless the psychiatrist has had plenty of it himself. It is not enough for him to have taken it once or twice "to see what it's like"; they insist that the psychiatrist should have had 20 to 40 sessions with...