Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit established in 1986 to advance evidence-based psychedelic therapy and end prohibition. MAPS incubated Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS Public Benefit Corporation) which is leading drug development of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD.
Mentioned Books
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
- The Immortality Key by Brian C. Murarescu
- Blitzed by Norman Ohler
- Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
- Drugs Without the Hot Air by David Nutt
- Marijuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- LSD: Doorway to the Numinous by Stanislav Grof
- The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert
- Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
- The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John M. Allegro
- The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus by Paracelsus (Essay)
- Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung
- Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
- Motivation and Personality by Abraham Maslow
- The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna