History, rationale and potential of human experimental hallucinogenic drug research in psychiatry.
Pharmacopsychiatry July 1998 Euphrosyne Gouzoulis‐mayfrank, L Hermle, B Thelen et al.
Systematic scientific interest in psychedelic substances has a tradition of about 100 years. Numerous human experimental studies have confirmed the existence of a common nucleus of experiences in hallucinogen-induced states and the acute stages of schizophrenic psychoses. However, the degree of resemblance between endogenous and drug-induced psychotic states has been an issue of controversial...