About the Contributors

Title: Drug Use by Adolescents: Some Valuative and Technical Implications

Author: Aaron H. Esman, M.D.

Director of Training at the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. In his clinical practice he specializes in work with adolescents, many of whom have some connection with the subject discussed in this paper. He has written extensively in the fields of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Alfred M. Freedman, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department, New York Medical College; Director of Psychiatry at the Metropolitan and the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. He is also Director of the Metropolitan Community Mental Health Center where an exclusive teaching, service and research program is conducted on drug abuse. Coeditor of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Dr. Freedman is particularly interested in how social institutions can influence behavior, particularly illustrated in drug abuse among adolescents and young adults.

J. Thomas Ungerleider, M.D.

He has testified before the United States Senate and is Consultant to the California Attorney General on problems of drug abuse. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, Dr. Ungerleider lectures nationally on LSD and has spoken to over 100,000 high school and college students on the problems of LSD and youth. Over half of his 30 published papers are on LSD.

Albert J. Solnit, M.D.

He is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Director, Yale University Child Study Center; Training and Supervising Analyst and President of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Chairman of the Child Analysis Committee of The American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published widely in both of his fields.

Irene M. Josselyn, M.D.