Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Roland Griffiths, who has died at the age of 77, was an American psychopharmacologist widely credited with reviving the study of psychedelic drugs."He was almost the opposite of what I imagined a psychedelic researcher would be like," said Nassim Assefi, who curated a talk Griffiths gave in 2015."He was serious, gentle, and had a straight laced appearance, with a deeply calm, spiritual sense about him."When Griffiths learnt his stage 4 colon cancer was likely to be terminal, he told his mentee David Yaden that Yaden should take his mentor's impending death "as an opportunity to feel grateful for life and to wake up to the present moment."Grief,
Source: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p2703
Author: Joanne Silberner
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4388718975