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was repeated in aitferent anec-.** dotes for several years' His account stimulated Dt. He did not say that he had Sidney Cohen, psychopharmg- colgist at the University who had commtted sucide fol- Iowing LSD. but he conceded comment that it is essental that patients be tol that they were advised that large doses should cause psychotic-like reactions be given only if a hospital is Dr Cohen pecalled a case nearby in which a woinan had bee I x suicide Immediately thereafter 3 ested ints potential for un- raveling thy possible biochem- psychotic. Cat bases for mental illnesses.! In an interview yesterday, Prior to hig LSD swdies, which j Dr Cohen said that a sucidal saw nhis private practce as a and out and th person think's been a psychological consultant [for the United States Depart unconscious paternt is un ment of the Army cavered that ferrihly stres meeting that he humself cxper- 'release previously.repress Jowing unwitting exposure to LSD, which he may have acct- as cause terrfyng halluci dentally inhaled or absorbedj trons. through the skin while conduct-i Dr. Abramson, who was bo ing an experiment on snails 1809 and staled medie at Combia Univeraity.is cold, he doctor related, I be gan/to fantasy that I'had a fesslonal publications. viyds encephalitis I decided J ing a book on the use of . was going to die " He said hel In psychotherapy and alcofa ism Much of the LSD resear done by him and others in the nineteen-fifties'was sponsored b the Josiah Macy Jr. Foun dation Many who conducted LSD research.were sthmulated, sup Ao y Aq os op0 of Dr Abramson. The doetor currently main- tains practicesin Manhattan and on Long Island and is consulting researchpsychia tralIslip and director of res search at SouthOaks hospital in Amityvlle.