This 71-Year-Old ‘Love Doc’ Says MDMA Is ‘Emotional Superglue’

“Better living through chemistry,” was the official slogan of DuPont chemicals for decades. It became the ironic cri de coeur of hippies in the 1960s, who started to experiment with psychedelic drugs ranging from LSD to mescaline to magic mushrooms.

One of those old hippies is Charles Wininger, a 71-year-old Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and relationship specialist who Newsday once dubbed “the Love Doctor.” Wininger has recently come out of what he calls “the chemical closet” with his new book  Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA, which is both a how-to guide and memoir of how this drug impacted his relationship with his wife Shelley, a retired nurse.

Variously known as ecstas