[2] In 1958, he founded the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and was its first director.
[3] Don died by accident while experimenting with possibly sodium pentothal as a form of reaching the subconscious on 29 January 1968.
— Richard Fisch, MD, Founder & Director, Brief Therapy Center, Mental Research Institute[5] "I miss Don.
Don had a quickness and a lightness in touch that is I think very important in handling problems of human behavior.
I think he might have thought that some of our antics this evening a little funny and to come up to this platform and lightened our procedures a little.