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Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology; Charles A. Janeway, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; Paul R. Lawrence, professor of Organizational Behavior; Daniel J. Levinson, assistant professor of Psychology; George H. Litwin, instructor in Business Administration; Everett Mendelsohn, assistant professor of Historical Science...
...course, largely developed by McCielland and George H. Litwin, an instructor in the Business School, is designed to produce an intensive emotional experience during which the participants may think seriously about their goals in life...
...injury might occur (e.g., heart or liver), and in early studies, required a medical examination: "Subjects who volunteered for the study were given medical screening by the University Health Services or the prison psychiatrist [some subjects were prisoners], and psychological screening by a group of clinical psychologists." (R.Metzner, G. Litwin, G. Weil, "The relation of expectation and setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination, and simply presented volunteers with the possible dangers and previous results. No physiological disasters, such...
...rage on reading: "We saw, however, very early that we could not begin to impose strict experimental controls (and strong assumptions) on our research until we had a broader view of the human and scientific problems involved. For this reason our first study [cited above] was purely naturalistic." (G. Litwin, R. Metzner, G. Weil, "Some problems encountered in working on the psilocybin research project," dittoed...
Whatever the vagaries of research methods, the paper by Litwin et al, makes it clear that its authors avow a commitment to "research on the short term and long term effects of psilocybin plus situation, and on the possible social uses of psilocybin.... Asking those people who are participating with us in making decisions and setting up programs to take the drug themselves is not evasive, but rather an attempt to bring as much knowledge and experience as possible to bear on these problems.... [However,] confrontation or, as it were, understanding the problem from the inside may be fruitful...