1 Private Practice, Tampa, Florida
2 University of Florida, Saybrook Graduate School
3 Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida
4 St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, Russia
Harris Friedman received a PhD from Georgia State University in psychology. He is Research Professor of Psychology at University of Florida and Professor Emeritus at Saybrook Graduate School, as well as a licensed psychologist. He has written over 50 articles and book chapters, focusing primarily on scientific approaches to transpersonal psychology. He has also authored the Self-Expansiveness Level Form, a widely used measure of transpersonal self-concept, and co-edits the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. He may be reached at [email protected].
Eli M. Kolp received the M.D. degree from Moscow Medical Stomatological Institute and received residency training in both psychiatry and surgery in Russia, as well as additional residency training in psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical School. In 1994, he began researching ketamine psychedelic psychotherapy while on staff at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa, where he continued his work through 1999. He also was a Fellow in Geriatric Psychiatry at University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry and presently maintains a private practice in the Tampa Bay area, specializing exclusively in ketamine psychedelic psychotherapy. He may be reached at [email protected].
Evgeny M. Krupitsky received the MD from Leningrad Institute of Hygiene and Sanitation, the PhD from Leningrad Institute of Experimental Medicine in Psychopharmacology, and the D.Med.Sci. in Psychiatry from St. Petersburg Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute. He is the chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Addictions at St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University and the chief of the Department of Addictions at the Bekhterev Research Psychoneurological Institute, as well as the Main Specialist in Addiction Medicine of the Health Care Committee of the Government of the Leningrad Region. In 1996-1997, he was Visiting Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He has more than 150 publications dealing with the treatment of various forms of addictions and alcoholism. He may be reached at [email protected].
M. Scott Young received a PhD in experimental psychopathology from University of South Florida in 2004 and an MS in management information systems from the same university in 2003. He works as Coordinator of Statistical Research in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy at the Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. His research currently focuses on substance abuse treatment program evaluation, coerced substance abuse treatment, and the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult mental health. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on substance abuse and mental health program evaluation, and he has received grant funding to analyze substance abuse treatment provider administrative data sets. He may be reached at [email protected].
Harris L. Friedman, 1255 Tom Coker Road, SW, Labelle, FL 33935.
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