James Fadiman

James Fadiman (born May 27, 1939) is an American writer known for his research on microdosing psychedelics. He co-founded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, which later became Sofia University.

Early years Fadiman was born in New York City to a Jewish family and grew up in Bel Air. His father, William Fadiman, was a producer, story editor, and book reviewer in Hollywood, one of his credits being The Last Frontier. Both his paternal grandparents, Isadore and Grace Fadiman, and his maternal grandparents, Mandel and Natalie (Natasha) Racolin, were Russian Jewish immigrants who settled in New York City near the turn of the 20th century.

Education/research and psychedelic counterculture Fadiman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a master's degree and a doctorate (both in psychology) from Stanford University, the PhD in 1965. While in Paris in 1961, his friend and former Harvard undergraduate adviser Ram Dass (then known as Richard Alpert) introduced him to psilocybin.

As a graduate student at Stanford, Fadiman was Stewart Brand's LSD guide on Brand's first LSD trip in 1962, at Myron Stolaroff's International Foundation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park, California. While living in Menlo Park, Fadiman and his wife were Ken Kesey's Perry Lane neighbors and friends.

In 1963, Fadiman worked at Stanford's Augmentation Research Center, a division that did research on networked computing.

Fadiman is a proponent of microdosing and collects anecdotal reports from those who practice it.

Transpersonal psychology and personality theory Fadiman and Robert Frager cofounded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now known as Sofia University) in 1975. He was a lecturer in psychedelic studies there. He was also a director at the Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1975 to 1977. Personality and Personal Growth has been republished in seven editions as of 2012. and Florida Atlantic University professor Maria Fadiman. His uncle was Clifton Fadiman, October 12, 2012, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Psychedelic Horizons Beyond Psychotherapy, Psychedelic Science 2013 Conference – April 2013, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Films Late 1960s documentary film, Drugs in Our Culture from the Prelinger Archives 2009 documentary film, Inside LSD from National Geographic 2013 documentary film, Science and Sacraments