Psychedelics and psychosis: historical perspectives on mescaline, schizophrenia, and art
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) January 28, 2026 Irina Terekhova
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, scientists hypothesized that psychedelics could serve as models for understanding psychosis. By the early twentieth century, this theory began to be tested experimentally. Since different types of psychotomimetic drugs induce qualitatively distinct forms of psychosis, there has been ongoing debate about whether there exist specifically ‘schizophrenogenic’...