3 papers in the library · 361 citations · publishing 1954-1957
Journal of Mental Science April 1, 1957 R. A. Sandison, J. D. A. Whitelaw 80 citations
This paper follows a preliminary communication to this Journal two years ago (Sandison, Spencer and Whitelaw, 1954) and gives an account of the fuller experience gained up to the present time with lysergic acid diethylamide in the treatment of mental illness.
Journal of Mental Science April 1, 1954 R. A. Sandison, A. M. Spencer, J. D. A. Whitelaw 191 citations
D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD 25) was first prepared in 1938 by Stoll and Hofmann. It is the synthetic amide of d-lysergic acid with a secondary amine, diethylamine and belongs to the ergonovine group of ergot alkaloids all of which have lysergic acid as a base. After its ingestion in minute doses, it induces psychic states in which the subject becomes aware of repressed memories and other...
Journal of Mental Science April 1, 1954 R. A. Sandison 90 citations
Recent work by the author and his colleagues (Sandison, Spencer and Whitelaw, 1954) has established that lysergic acid diethylamide is of great value in the psychotherapy of the neuroses. This paper attempts to examine in rather more detail the possible mechanism of action of the drug in terms of dynamic psychology. It is now generally accepted that the psychoneuroses are the result of a faulty...