John Raymond Smythies

[...]a direct line can be drawn from those salad days to the counterculture, drug revolution, and psychonauts of the 1960s, and then on to the decades of psychedelic suppression during the anti-hippie movement. John spent more than a decade at the University of Edinburgh’s psychiatry department, fir...

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Published inBMJ (Online) Vol. 365; p. l1873
Main Authors McGeoch, Paul D, Ramachandran, VS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London BMJ Publishing Group LTD 26.04.2019
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Congestive heart failure
Consciousness
Hospitals
Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
Hypotheses
Psychiatry
Schizophrenia
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Summary:[...]a direct line can be drawn from those salad days to the counterculture, drug revolution, and psychonauts of the 1960s, and then on to the decades of psychedelic suppression during the anti-hippie movement. John spent more than a decade at the University of Edinburgh’s psychiatry department, first as a senior lecturer and then reader. John eventually “retired” from clinical practice to become a project scientist at the centre for brain and cognition, at the University of California, San Diego. Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and psychedelic pioneer (b 1922; q Cambridge 1945; MSc, MD, FRCP Lond), died from heart failure on 28 January 2019
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.l1873