Fascinating portrait of the perverse psychiatrist Jan Bastiaans and his time

The name of ‘Professor Jan Bastiaans’ (1917-1997) will forever be associated with the treatment of concentration camp survivors with LSD. An approach that came under fierce criticism. After dropping out of Leiden University, he started his own clinic, Centrum ’45. And the clients flocked in: ‘We have to be near Professor Bastiaans because he feels so well the wavelength of the bruised ex-prisoners.’

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