Word: klerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist and a philosophy professor renewed the debate on consciousness-expanding drugs last night. At the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Gerald L. Klerman and Huston Smith, professor of philosophy at M.I.T., discussed whether drugs such as psilocybin can benefit mankind, and found themselves in sharp disagreement...
...main dangers of the immediate effects, according to Klerman are that the subject could hurt himself by for example misjudging distances, and that the physiological changes induced by the drugs might accentuate a chronic illness, like a liver condition...
...Klerman Identified the persistence of a psychotic or schizophrenic state is a harmful long-range effect that could result from taking the drugs...
...Klerman said there was nothing new in the claim of Alpert and Leary that the experience of taking psilocybin creates a setting in which a person can see himself in a new light, and that, as a consequence, the drug can have a lasting effect on maturation, creativity or personality orientation...
...Klerman admitted that "some of their findings have been of interest," but stated that "there have been no adequately controlled and systematic studies of "consciousness-expanding drugs] indicating benefits to maturation and consciousness-expansion...