- Justin Huggler, berlin
3 NOVEMBER 2017 • 3:52PMAtherapist went on trial in Germany this week over an incident in which delegates at a “natural medicine” seminar suffered severe hallucinations.
The 52-year-old, named only as Stefan S under German privacy law, is accused of deliberately supplying delegates with a highly dangerous banned hallucinogenic drug.
Delegates at the 2015 seminar included practitioners of homeopathy and alternative healing as well as medical doctors.
When ambulance crews were called to the venue in the small town of Handeloh, near Hamburg, they found delegates crawling on the ground and screaming.
Some were lying on top of each other semi-naked, while one man was attempting to cut off his own genitals. Another was hallucinating that he was a dragon.
Stefan S is accused of deliberately gave the 29 delegates capsules containing the amphetamine 2C-E and “dragonfly”, a powerful hallucinogen similar to LSD. Both drugs are banned.
Proscutors allege the trained psychotherapist gave the drugs out as part of a controversial form of therapy known as “psycholysis”, in which patients are given hallucinogens in order to “widen their consciousness”.
Stefan S admitted supplying the capsules but claimed he had been mistaken about their contents. He said he was not aware they contained dragonfly and believed they contained much lower doses of 2-CE
“That was my biggest mistake: I trusted the written and verbal information I had been given about them,” he told the court.
A witness told the court that one of the participants had said she would never have taken the capsule if she had known what it contained.
Stefan S also admitted that LSD and traces of cocaine found at the scene were his. The LSD was for delegates who could not take 2-CE because of heart problems, he said. He also had prescription tranquilisers in case of emergency.
As a therapist, Stefan S is not qualified to prescribe medicine. He said he had obtained the tranquilisers from a “friendly doctor”.
Stefan S studied under Samuel Widmer, the controversial Swiss psychiatrist and sect leader who founded the practise of “psycholysis”.
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