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Researchers like Timothy Leary felt psychedelics could alter the fundamental personality structure or subjective value-system of an individual, to beneficial effect.

His experiments with prison inmates were an attempt to reduce recidivism through a few short, intense sessions of psilocybin administered weeks apart with biweekly group therapy sessions in between.

Psychedelic therapy was used in a number of other specific patient populations, including alcoholics, children with autism, and people with terminal illness.