She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow, but her foundation’s research into the therapeutic use of counterculture drugs proved visionary.
Amanda Feilding, Countess Who Drilled a Hole in Her Head, Dies at 82
Written by
in
Deaths (Obituaries), Depression (Mental), Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Ecstasy (Drug), Feilding, Amanda (1943-2025), Hofmann, Albert (1906-2008), LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), Nutt, David J (1951- ), Oxford (England), Pollan, Michael, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic Drugs, Shulgin, Alexander (1925-2014)