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ABSTRACT
From the perspective of a psychoanalyst and professor of psychotherapy, this article recounts a personal journey to Woodstock, engagement with therapeutic interventions for some attendees experiencing bad trips, brief appearances in films of the festival, and a growing realization of a quest for meaning and purpose that would result in research and practice in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
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Charles W. Dithrich
Dr. Charles W. Dithrich is a practicing psychoanalyst in the San Francisco area and a core faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has written on psychoanalysis and music, dreams, imagination, creativity, and the interpersonal relational field. His interests include the healing potential of psychedelics within therapeutic settings.