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Walter N. Pahnke

5 papers in the library · 559 citations · publishing 1969-1971

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LSD in the Treatment of Alcoholics*

Pharmacopsychiatry March 1, 1971 Albert A. Kurland, Charles Savage, Walter N. Pahnke et al. 110 citations

The use of LSD in the treatment of alcoholism has led to many claims concerning the drug's efficacy. Efforts to verify these reports in controlled studies have been difficult because of the unique effects of LSD. Despite this formidable methodological obstacle a number of investigations have been carried out. A critique of these is presented followed by our own research experience in a...

The Experimental Use of Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy

JAMA June 15, 1970 Walter N. Pahnke 214 citations

The history of research with psychedelic drugs has produced a variety of methods for their use and conflicting claims about results. First came the wave of excitement among experimentalists in the 1950s when it was claimed that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) could produce a model psychosis which might be useful in understanding schizophrenia. While this promise was fading, enthusiastic...

The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death

Harvard Theological Review 1969 Walter N. Pahnke 147 citations

This Spring I received a long distance telephone call from Dean Samuel Miller, who invited me to give this year's Ingersoll Lecture on human immortality. Three days later, Dean Miller was dead. When I heard the sad news, I, as many of you no doubt, began to think about the way he had influenced me, especially during my theological training here at Harvard Divinity School. One of my most vivid...