Abramson, Harold

I m not sure how it started, but in early 1965, I began exchanging letters with Dr. Harold Abramson, one of the most well known LSD pioneers in the United States. Aware of our studies with LSD, he asked if I would like to attend a conference he was organizing. Many illustrious LSD experts from all over the world would be there for a three-day exchange of data and opinions. 

In 1965,1 met Sid again at Harold Abramson s Conference on The Uses of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism. We didn t become well acquainted,... 

Olson, however, reacted differently. He became depressed and paranoid. Over the weekend, he kept telling his wife he was incompetent. Gottlieb called Dr. Harold Abramson, who tried to help, providing medication and reassurance. When the depression did not lift, Abramson became concerned and arranged for hospitalization at Chestnut Lodge, a private psychiatric hospital. 

Dr. Harold Abramson, under a contract with the CIA in 1954, had reached a similar conclusion from a preliminary trial with four subjects. Based on his clinical judgment of response intensity, he estimated the inhalation dose to be only about one-third as effective as the same oral dose. In 1966, he gave me a hand-typed draft CIA report he had never published. The ingenuity of the technique he describes, using a rudimentary aerosol chamber, is evident in the report, which is provided on the following pages. 

For "Drugs and Mysticism," by Walter N. Pahnke. Reprinted from International Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 8 (1966), No. 2. Also appeared in The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism, edited by Harold A. Abramson. Copyright 1967 by Harold A. Abramson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers. 

LSD trip. He became depressed and was sent, accompanied by Gottlieb s assistant, to see Dr. Harold Abramson. Reluctantly, Olson agreed to enter a mental hospital. The night before commitment, he died after crashing through a window on the tenth floor of the New York Stader-Hilton Hotel. 

In 1957, Alles attended a conference in Princeton, New Jersey, that was sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, and there he described his MDA experience. In 1959, the proceedings of the conference were published in Neuropharmacology Transactions of the 4th Conference (edited by Harold Abramson). Five or six years later, MDA began showing up in the counterculture, and in 1970 it was "scheduled as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse legislation. 

Psychotherapy, Harold A. Abramson, editor, Josiah Macy, Jr. 

Adjuvant to psychotherapy - 20-40 ug. Harold Abramson (1956) The use of LSD to enable the patient to shorten this process has been termed psychol5dic therapy in Europe. Low doses of LSD are used in psycholytic therapy. Harold Abramson, M.D. (1967)... 

Contrary to assertions in the popular press, when LSD is administered as part of a therapeutic medical program, irreversible psychotic changes and brain damage do not occur. Certain irresponsible statements that it does produce such adverse effects have not been supported by valid scientific evidence, Harold A. Abramson, M.D. (1967). 

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