CARY GRANT

A recent biography on tv, 'Becoming Cary Grant', explored the fact that from an early point in his life Grant and his third wife had extensive LSD therapy (100+ sessions at least over three years 1958-1961) as a therapeutic model to expose his inner issues and explore the concept of self. Between 1950 and 1965, around 40,000 patients were prescribed lysergic acid to treat conditions as diverse as alcoholism, schizophrenia and PTSD. Turned on to the treatment by his third wife, Betsy Drake, Grant submitted himself to weekly sessions with Dr Mortimer Hartman at the Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills. Throughout his life he recommended it to everyone who discussed it with him and many of his partners. 

“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

– Cary Grant (nee Archie Leach)