Flashback to the 1960s: LSD in the treatment of autism
Developmental Neurorehabilitation 2007 Jeff Sigafoos, Vanessa A. Green, Chaturi Edrisinha et al. 43 citations
Between 1959 and 1974, several groups of researchers issued reports on the use of d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in the treatment of children with autism. This paper reviews that literature to consider how the authors justified these studies, as well as their methods, results, and conclusions. The justification for using LSD was often based on the default logic that other treatment efforts...