Ronald A. Sandison

Ronald Sandison
Born
Ronald Arthur Sandison

(1916-04-01)1 April 1916
Shetland, Scotland
Died18 June 2010(2010-06-18) (aged 94)
Alma materKing's College Hospital
Scientific career
FieldsPsychotherapy, psychiatry
InstitutionsRAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, Powick Hospital, Warlingham Park Hospital, Knowle Hospital, Margaret Pyke Centre

Ronald Arthur Sandison (1 April 1916 – 18 June 2010) was a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist.[1] Among his other work. he is particularly noted for his pioneering studies and use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a psychotheraputic drug.[2] As a consultant psychiatrist, his LSD work was mainly carried out during the 1950s and '60s at Powick Hospital, a large psychiatric facility near Malvern, Worcestershire, after which he spent several years in Southampton, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the university medical school. He returned to his native Shetland Isles in the 1970s and worked in psychotherapy there. He later specialised in psychosexual medicine on the UK mainland. Sandison died at the age of 94, and was buried in Ledbury near Malvern. [3] [4]

  1. ^ "Dr Ronald Sandison". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Dr Ronald Sandison". The Times. Times Newspapers Limited. 16 August 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  3. ^ Sessa, Ben (November 2010). "Dr Ronald Arthur Sandison". The Psychiatrist. 34 (11). Cambridge University Press: 503. doi:10.1192/pb.bp.110.032540. ISSN 1758-3209.
  4. ^ Sandison, Ronald (2001). A Century of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Group Analysis. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd. pp. 31–33. ISBN 978-1-85302-869-4.