Ann Shulgin

Born

1931-03-22

Died

2022-07-09

Birthplace

Wellington, New Zealand

Biography

Laura Ann Shulgin was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote the books 'PiHKAL' and 'TiHKAL'. 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.