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Three early research papers on LSD and other psychedelic drugs. Dr. Charles Savage, the principal author of each, was the first American to conduct research with mescaline, at the Medical Research Institute near Washington, DC. in the early 1950s. Like all research at the time, it was sponsored by the C.I.A. , under the code name “Chatter.” He was later Director of Medical Research at Spring Grove State Hospital, the only facility in the U.S. where LSD research was allowed to continue after the drug was  declared illegal. Dr. Stanislav Grof was his associate there. Prior to that he was an investigator with Stolaroff and Harman’s International Foundation for Advanced Studies in Menlo Park, California. He was a prolific author of some thirty papers relating to psychopharmacology, many on the subject of LSD in psychotherapy.

Dr. Charles Savage was a pioneer of LSD research, a member of the group that founded the seminal organization known as the International Foundation for Advanced Study, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, which also included some of the co-authors of these papers, namely Harman,  Fadiman and Mogar.  Savage later became Director of Medical Research at Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore, MD where he worked alongside Stan Grof in one of the last LSD research programs allowed by the US government. 

We are offering the following 3 off-prints as a group.

(1)  The Effectiveness of Psychedelic (LSD) Therapy:  A Preliminary Report

 By CHARLES SAVAGE, MARY A. HUGHES, ROBERT MOGAR

Reprinted from the British Journal of Social Psychiatry (1967).

8 pages, issued without covers, stapled.

First Separate Printing.

Case histories of subjects given LSD in a therapeutic setting.The author’s conclude that “LSD, given in a therapeutic setting with adequate preparation and follow-up, but without formal psychotherapy, can provide considerable benefit for a variety of patient populations,” but not always, and “psychiatric treatment may be required in addition.” They bemoan the fact that “highly charged emotional and irrational arguments” of both proponents and antagonists are clouding the issue. Condition ,Very fine copy.

(2)  Psychedelic Therapy

Reprinted from Research in Psychotherapy (1968).

9 pages, issued without covers, stapled.

First Separate Printing. 

This paper represents an important contribution to psychedelic psychotherapy.

Most of the work was done with alcoholics, and the results were extremely promising before this program too was shut down.

“By now, 163 patients…have received one or more LSD treatments.

Preliminary global evaluation suggests the improvement rate is at least twice as great as those who have tried LSD as opposed to those who have not.”

Condition Very fine copy.

(3)  The Analysis of an Outsider

 By CHARLES SAVAGE, SIDNEY COHEN, COLIN WILSON

Reprinted from Psychoanalytic Forum (1969)

28 pages, printed wrapper, stapled.

First Separate Printing. Savage discusses the case history of one of his patients, who was heavily into peyote and marijuana and was at the center of a small drug cult, as an example of the “Outsider” whom British writer Colin Wilson had made a household word with his book of the same name published in 1956. An interesting discussion amongst six experts, including Wilson and Dr. Sidney Cohen, follows the  talk.  

 AUTHOR == Charles Savage, M.D. Director of Medical Research at Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, he also holds the following positions: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University; Assistant Clinical Professor, The Psychiatric Institute, University of Mary-land, Baltimore; Associate Consultant in Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore; member of the American Psycho-analytic Association and the Baltimore, San Francisco and Washington psychoanalytic societies. Dr. Savage has published about 30 papers dealing with psychopharma¬cology, psychoanalysis and cross-cultural studies.

DISCUSSANTS

SIDNEY COHEN, M.D.  Chief of the Center for Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C. Dr. Cohen is recognized as a leading authority on psychedelic drugs. For 5 years he has been researching psychochemicals and has published 100 papers on tranquilizers, anti-depressants and psychotomimetics. He is author of The Beyond Within: The LSD Story.

COLIN WILSON  One of Britain's most colorful literary figures; philosopher, critic and novelist whose first book and major critical success, The Outsider, has been followed by prolific writing which has earned him the title, "Elder Statesman of the Angry Young Men." In 1966, his Introduction to the New Existentialism led to his being considered the most original thinker on the current English philosophical scene. Mr. Wilson has served as a Writer in Residence at Hollins College in Virginia, the University of Washington, and Purdue University.

ISRAEL ZWERLING, M.D., PH.D.  Dr. Zwerling is Director of the Bronx State Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

ROBERT A. SAVITT, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and a training and supervisory analyst in its Division of Psychoanalytic Education. Part of his practice has been devoted to a limited but intensive investigation of addiction. Dr. Savitt chaired the discussion group on "Psychoanalysis and Problems of Addiction," held at the 1967 Midwinter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Four of his 14 published papers deal with psychoanalytic studies on addiction.

ENOCH CALLAWAY, M.D. He is Professor of Psychiatry in Residence at the University of California in San Francisco, and is Chief of Research for the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. He has been a member of the National Institute for Mental Health Psychopharmacology Study Section and has published over 50 papers, a number of them dealing with cognitive effects of drugs, including LSD.

GEORGE C. CURTIS, M.D. Senior Medical Research Scientist at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Curtis is an Advanced Candidate at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute and has written many papers dealing with interdisciplinary problems, psychophysiology, psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalysis.

MORE ABOUT = Colin Henry Wilson (born 26 June 1931 in Leicester) is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.

Born and raised in Leicester, England, Wilson left school at 16. He worked in factories and at various occupations, and read in his spare time. Gollancz published the then 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956; the work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent van Gogh; Wilson discusses his perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain.

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Wilson became associated with the "Angry Young Men" of British literature. He contributed to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the movement, and wrote a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.  Some viewed Wilson and his friends Bill Hopkins and Stuart Holroyd as a sub-group of the "Angries", more concerned with "religious values" than with liberal or socialist politics.

Wilson has written non-fiction books on metaphysical and occult themes. In 1971, he published The Occult: A History featuring interpretations on Aleister Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, and Paracelsus (among others). He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, and has written biographies on other spiritual and psychological visionaries, including Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and P. D. Ouspensky.

Originally, Wilson focused on the cultivation of what he called "Faculty X", which he saw as leading to an increased sense of meaning, and on abilities such as telepathy and the awareness of other energies. In his later work he suggests the possibility of life after death and the existence of spirits, which he personally analyzes as an active member of the Ghost Club.

 Total for Three Offprints