Psychodynamic observations made during the mescaline-induced state in 124 patients are reviewed. Mescaline produces a "state of being" in which the clinical spectrum can range from sleep to rage and from normalcy to thoroughly disorganized mental states. Anxiety is considered the background upon which the mescaline experience evolves. One may consider the mescaline-induced state under three...
2 From the Research Division of the Central Islip State Hospital, Central Islip, New York. 3 From the Research Department of Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York.