Ann Shulgin
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| Born | Laura Ann Gotlieb March 22, 1931 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Died | July 9, 2022 (aged 91) Lafayette, California |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
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Laura Ann Shulgin (née Gotlieb; March 22, 1931 – July 9, 2022)[2] was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL.[3]
Life and career
[edit]Laura Ann Gotlieb[4] was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to parents Bernard Gotlieb and Gwen Ormiston, but grew up in the village Opicina outside the Italian city Trieste. Her father was U.S. Consul in Trieste for six years before World War II.[5][6][4] Later in her childhood she lived in the U.S., Cuba, and Canada. She studied art and became an artist, married an artist and had a child, and they later divorced. She had two more marriages ending in divorce and had three more children. Ann went back to work as a medical transcriber, and met Alexander ("Sasha") Shulgin in 1978; they were married on 4 July 1981 in their back yard.[4]
She worked as a lay therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA and 2C-B in therapeutic settings while these drugs were still legal.[7] In her writings she stressed the potential of these drugs from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, as well as their use in combination with hypnotherapy. She often appeared as a speaker at conventions and continued to advocate the use of psychedelics in therapeutic contexts.[citation needed]
Together with her husband she authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL.[7] They developed a systematic way of ranking the effects of the various drugs, known as the Shulgin Rating Scale, with a vocabulary to describe the visual, auditory and physical sensations. She also contributed to the books Thanatos to Eros: 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration, Entheogens and the Future of Religion, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide, The Secret Chief Revealed, Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics, and Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality.[citation needed]
According to her daughter, Shulgin had been in ill health because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Shulgin died July 9, 2022, at her and her late husband's San Francisco Bay Area residence.[8]
Publications
[edit]- with Alexander Shulgin. PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1991. ISBN 0-9630096-0-5
- with Alexander Shulgin. TiHKAL: The Continuation. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9630096-9-9
- with Alexander Shulgin. "A New Vocabulary". In Robert Forte (ed.), Entheogens and the Future of Religion, Berkeley: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997. ISBN 1-889725-01-3
- "Tribute to Jacob". In The Secret Chief: Conversations With a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement by Myron J. Stolaroff, Charlotte, NC: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 1997. ISBN 0-9660019-1-5
- Foreword, M. Crowley, Secret Drugs of Buddhism. Amrita Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0907791744
References
[edit]- ^ "Ann Shulgin, 91, Who Explored Psychedelics With Her Husband, Dies". The New York Times. July 19, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
- ^ Ruhe in Frieden, Ann Shulgin (in German)
- ^ "Drugs added to banned lists". BBC Online. August 12, 1998. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Ann Shulgin". Shulginresearch.org. Retrieved May 11, 2016. Detailed biography of Ann Shulgin
- ^ Shulgin, Ann. "Erowid Character Vaults: Ann Shulgin Extended Biography". Erowid.org. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
- ^ "shulginresearch.org at Directnic". Archived from the original on June 29, 2014.
- ^ a b Rodriguez, Olga R. (July 13, 2022). "Ann Shulgin, pioneer of using ecstasy and other psychedelic drugs in therapy, dies". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ Rodriguez, Olga R. (July 12, 2022). "Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Erowid Character Vaults: Ann Shulgin
- Ann Shulgin dedica la traducción al español de PIHKAL y TIHKAL Archived July 7, 2022, at the Wayback Machine (In Spanish)
- A New Class of Criminals: A therapist laments the loss to science of MDMA
- Video: Psychedelic Psychotherapy with MDMA – Ann Shulgin: A Chemical Performance
- Transform Press – Publisher of Ann Shulgin's Books
- Ann Shulgin at IMDb
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- 1931 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century American women writers
- Writers from Trieste
- Writers from Wellington City
- American psychedelic drug advocates
- Psychedelic drug researchers
- 21st-century American women writers
- New Zealand emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American women non-fiction writers