Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, a University Health Service physician is on 24-hour call, by telephone, with full knowledge of how to treat any abnormal effects of the drug, Alpert explained...
...Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Timothy Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology defended their work, saying that subjects can not be told specifically what the drug will do to them during its four-hour spell because the experimenters would then be "imposing effects and directing the experience." Alpert also asserted that the Food and Drug Administration, the University Health Services, and the synthesizer of psilocybin have approved the experiments...
David C. McClelland, head of the Center, said that he was concerned about the possible permanent effects of the drug but was convinced that the drug research work had been misrepresented. Presiding over a 90-minute open meeting, McClelland said that he supported Leary's and Alpert's project but viewed it, like all research at the Center, with a certain amount of skepticism...
...wish I could treat this as scholarly disagreement," said Herbert C. Kelman, lecturer on Social Psychology and leading opponent of the psilocybin research, "but this work violates the values of the academic community." He charged a "non-chalant attitude" by Leary and Alpert toward controls of the experiments, effects on the subject, and administration of the project...
Consciousness expanding drugs may some day contribute to human welfare by increasing understanding of the mind, by suggesting new methods of educational research, and behavior change. This work is just beginning. Systematic scientific studies in this field, as in any other, will produce the facts. Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, Center for Research in Personality...