Laura Ann Shulgin was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin with whom she wrote the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL She worked as a lay therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA and 2CB in therapeutic settings while these drugs were still legal In her writings she stressed the potential of these drugs from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective as well as their use in combination with hypnotherapy