Graphical composite showing a woman with an eye mask on, surrounded by scientists, with a psychedelic pattern expanding behind her.
Psychedelic clinical trials focus on a myriad of hallucinogenic drugs. Elizabeth Koch is a proponent for MDMA in therapy.
  • Elizabeth Koch, daughter to right-wing oil magnate Charles Koch, struggled to find joy in her life.
  • Using MDMA therapy, she broke through the feeling that she needed to be perfect to deserve to exist. 
  • Author Rachel Nuwer tells the story of how Elizabeth overcame her pain in the new book "I Feel Love".

One organization has been largely responsible for bringing psychedelics into the mainstream, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS.