Journalist Don Lattin, author of The Harvard Psychedelic Club, is writing a book about the relationship between the philosopher/writers Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, and their shared interest in LSD, which led to Bill Wilson being cured of alcoholism and founding AA. (Fortunately for the subsequent extraordinary success story of AA, Wilson’s original idea of also using LSD as part of the program, was dropped as too controversial). The film footage shows psychiatrist Sidney Cohen conducting an LSD experimental therapy session with a woman in the 1950s – and demonstrates the extraordinary disconnect of psychedelic experiences from the worldview and understanding of mainstream psychiatry.
http://www.donlattin.com/pagehpc/dl_harvard_psychedelic_club.html
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