Oscar Janiger was an experimental psychiatrist and a University of California Irvine psychiatrist and psychotherapist, best known for his LSD research, which lasted from 1954 to 1962.
15 Facts About Oscar Janiger
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Oscar Janiger moved to Los Angeles in 1950, setting up a private practice and later teaching at the University of California at Irvine.
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Oscar Janiger was interested in the relationship between creativity and mind-expanding drugs.
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Oscar Janiger bought the then-legal drugs from a Swiss company, Sandoz Laboratories, abandoning his research when the US Government began investigating researchers in 1962.
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Oscar Janiger's work pre-dated Timothy Leary's but was not recognised widely because he did not publish his data.
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Oscar Janiger had 900 people take LSD and recorded their experiences.
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Oscar Janiger had Murdoch paint still lifes both on and off LSD, including a Kachina doll.
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Oscar Janiger was involved with a group studying dolphins in their natural environment.
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Oscar Janiger published a few journal articles and one book entitled A Different Kind of Healing in 1993 with Philip Goldberg.
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Oscar Janiger took part in a documentary on psychedelics and creativity, Drug-taking, and the Arts.
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Oscar Janiger was affectionately referred to as "Oz "by his close friends.
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Oscar Janiger married three times; his third wife, Kathleen Delaney Janiger, died before him, in February 2001.
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Oscar Janiger died of heart and kidney failure at the Little Company of Mary Hospital on August 14,2001, in Torrance, California.
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Oscar Janiger was survived by sons Robert and David; sister, Estelle Rosten and a brother, Nat.
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Oscar Janiger continued his psychiatric practice until a month before his death.