Word: psilocybin
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Members of the Center for Research in Personality clashed yesterday in a dramatic meeting over the right of two colleagues to continue studies on the effects of psilocybin, a consciousness-expanding drug, on graduate student subjects...
...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...
...past six months we have centered on systematic and controlled studies of the effects of psilocybin in prisoner rehabilitation, in individual counseling, and in experimental situations...
...investigators of psilocybin" are not "unbounded in their enthusiasm." Unbounded concern would be a more accurate diagnosis--concern for the many problems created by the consciousness-expanding drugs. Problems of conceptualization. Problems of measurement. Problems of application and follow-up. Problems of interpretation. Problems of control...
...first research study addressed itself to the range of reactions of subjects taking psilocybin in a naturalistic setting. A wide range of subjects were part of this study--professors, poets, priests, prisoners, "problem-cases." Our conclusions--set and setting, expectation and emotional atmosphere (in particular the fears and intentions of the experimenter) account for almost all of the specificity of reaction...