title: Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1917-2004), a radical and conventional psychiatrist: The transcendent years.
abstract: This article describes the life and work of the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond who pursued a radical path as a psychiatrist while he remained within the establishment. To the public mind however, he is best known as the man who introduced Aldous Huxley to mescaline and coined the iconic word psychedelic. From an early stage of his career, Henry Osmond embraced new ideas to break the nexus in psychiatry at a time when neither biological nor psychoanalytic treatments were shown to have much benefit. To do this, he joined the radical social experiment in health in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan where he initiated a range of innovations that attracted international attention, as well as controversy over his espousal of the use of hallucinogens better to understand the experiences of psychotic patients.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Australia rob.liaison@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history*; D002170:Canada; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D006213:Hallucinogens / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history
chemical_list: D006213:Hallucinogens; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
keywords: Canadian psychiatry; Osmond; alcoholism; psychedelic; schizophrenia