Ralph Metzner, a psychotherapist who began his career working with Timothy Leary on controversial studies at Harvard involving LSD and other drugs, then spent a lifetime exploring and writing about expanded consciousness in all sorts of cultures and settings, died on March 14 at his home in Sonoma, Calif. He was 82.

His wife, Cathy Coleman, said the cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr. Metzner, who received a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1962, was a graduate student there when he began working with Dr. Leary and Richard Alpert, who were clinical psychology professors and had begun exploring therapeutic and other uses for LSD, psilocybin and similar hallucinogens. The three later collaborated on “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead” (1964), one of the coreBarbifrontia

Barbifrontia is a monotypic snout moth genus. It was described by George Hampson in 1901 and contains the species Barbifrontia hemileucella, described in the same publication. It is found in Australia.

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Category:Phycitini
Category:Moths of Australia
Category:Monotypic moth genera
Category:Taxa named by George Hampson
Category:Pyralidae genera