Trained as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Katz was most comfortable as a researcher. As psychiatry became increasingly medicalized, Dr. Katz remained a believer in a multi-dimensional approach to mental illness. Dr. Katz, who resided in Bethesda, Md., is survived by his wife of 66 years, Barbara Gelb Katz; two children, Nancie Katz of Brooklyn and Pete Katz of Austin; and two granddaughters. In the 1960s, Dr. Katz co-wrote a paper on the psychological effects of the hallucinogen LSD, which was briefly a subject of clinical study. Nonetheless, Dr. Katz was fascinated enough by the drug that he took it himself, monitored by a psychiatrist friend, to try to better understand its effects.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2017 23:04 UTC