1 Student Health Service, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B. C, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. Paper read at the annual meeting of the North Pacific Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Vancouver, B.C., April 6–8, 1967.
1 Temple University Medical Center and Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19129. 2 Psychopathic Hospital, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
This study describes the short-term effects of administering LSD to normals as measured by pre and one-week-post-LSD tests of anxiety, attitudes, and performance. The hypothesis tested was that LSD would produce a rapid lowering of defenses resulting in (1) lower anxiety, (2) attitudinal changes, particularly in the form of decreased dogmatism and projection of aggression, and (3) increases in...
2 Medical Center, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas. 3 Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Char-lottesville, Virginia.
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.