Ann Shulgin
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| Born | Laura Ann Gotlieb March 22, 1931 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Died | July 9, 2022 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Alexander Shulgin (d. 2014) |
| Children | Wendy Perry |
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Ann Shulgin (March 22, 1931 – July 9, 2022)[1] was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL.[2]
Life and career
Laura Ann Gotlieb[3] was born in Wellington, New Zealand to parents Bernard Gotlieb and Gwen Ormiston, and 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.[4][5][3] 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.[3]
She worked as a lay therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA and 2C-B in therapeutic settings while these drugs were still legal. 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.
Together with her husband she authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL. 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.
Publications
- "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
- 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
- with Alexander Shulgin. TiHKAL: The Continuation. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9630096-9-9
- with Alexander Shulgin. PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1991. ISBN 0-9630096-0-5
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- Erowid Character Vaults: Ann Shulgin
- Ann Shulgin dedica la traducción al español de PIHKAL y TIHKAL (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
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