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...Trips." One reason for the Federal Government's go-slow approach toward controls is its desire not to inhibit legitimate research into mind-manipulating drugs, whose potential for good no one can yet foresee. The NIMH has granted limited amounts of LSD to clinics and research institutes for experimental use in treating such disorders as alcoholism. The new state laws likewise provide for supervised research. But their supporters are convinced that, because of the brain damage and violence that LSD can wreak, society must try to police itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among...
Unique in awarding funds to college extra-curricular activities, the NIMH plans to follow the PBH work closely as a "test case" to determine whether the project can be undertaken by other colleges...
David Kantor, research associate in Social Relations and director of the PBH program, said that the NIMH was attracted by the students' work on mental health and is experimenting with the feasibility of such grants...
...historical account of PBH work and a general analysis of the college students' role in mental health, written by four College students, was a direct influence upon the NIMH in securing the grant, according to Kantor...
Stiff Questions. One diagnosis of NIMH's current troubles is that Clinical Director Cohen is highly permissive for a father-figure and tries to give subordinates a free hand in working with patients. But even this permissiveness ran out when Psychiatrist Scher made ambitious demands for guarantees of space, facilities and money to continue his experiment in treating schizophrenics "tough." Cohen ordered the six patients in Scher's special project transferred to a state hospital, provoking angry protest from their families. Last week a congressional subcommittee" on appropriations handed Director Felix a set of stiff questions...