IVIV LSD re Grof's LSD Psychotherapy & etc.

[Doug Millison]

Grof's account of his work is an eye-opener.  He appears to have  
worked with some people who were disturbed at a deep level, basically  
he gave them pharmaceutical-grade LSD and sat with them while they  
tripped.  I find his reconstruction of the various elements that  
people report over and over again very interesting, from a narrative  
point of view.

Seem to be some copies available: http://www.amazon.com/LSD-Psychotherapy-Stanislav-Grof-M-D/dp/096600194X 
    That looks like the edition I have.

It may also be worth noting that Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics  
Anonymous, praised or at least wrote positively about LSD in his  
autobiography, to the embarrassment of the AA establishment at the  
time and since. In the book, _Alcoholics Anonymous_, Wilson reports a  
"mountain top" sort of spiritual experience that he credits with  
helping make it possible for him to stop drinking. Years later in his  
autobiography, he favorably compared the LSD experiments he made (I  
forget if they were in the '50s or '60s) to that earlier peak  
experience, and suggested (if I remember it correctly, I don't have  
the book here) LSD could be useful for recovering alcoholics,  
something like that, I forget the precise details.