The man isn't dying of thirst - 1970 LSD psychotherapy

Another rare gem here!

"MAN ISN’T DYING OF THIRST"
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY VACLAV HAPL

In 1970, the 22-minute film "Man Isn't Dying Of Thirst" by Vaclav Hapl – depicting the use of LSD in psychotherapy – was produced in Czechoslovakia. At the time, Czechoslovakia was the only country in the world still legally manufacturing LSD. Dr. Milan Hausner was the main consultant on the film.

The award-winning film explores man's struggles to survive in a fast-paced, complex world – struggles which for many provoke mental disorders – and the clinical use of LSD psychotherapy to cope with mental strain.

"Man Isn’t Dying of Thirst" premiered in Los Angeles, January 3, 1973, on KCET-TV as part of the Verite documentary film series followed by a discussion about the use of LSD in the clinical environment in the U.S. by Dr. Stanislav Grof, Chief Psychiatrist at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Baltimore, and Dr. Sidney Cohen, head of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and former Director of Drug Addition and Abuse at the National Institute of Mental Health.

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It didn’t take long for LSD to spread around the world as a wonder drug and a cursed drug. With the
street abuse happening everywhere, particularly in America, LSD was soon outlawed worldwide.

Yet in Czechoslovakia, behind the Iron Curtain at the time, one psychiatrist, Dr. Milan Hausner,
established a clinic and used LSD in psychotherapy for 20 years.

In the course of Dr. Hausner’s work, his clinic near Prague gained international recognition as
the largest facility of its kind, supervising over 3,000 therapeutic sessions with LSD involving more than 300 patients. As a result, his clinic became one of the most extensive LSD centers in the world.

"LSD: The Highway To Mental Health" tells how Dr. Hausner did it,
what happened at his clinic, and what he was able to achieve.