Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
July 10, 2025
Pernille Kølbæk, Søren Dinesen Østergaard, Jens Larsen
Background Recent studies have suggested that psychedelics such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin might benefit patients with mental illness. This revival calls for revisiting the field’s past experiences with these agents. From 1960 to 1973, many patients were treated with LSD and/or psilocybin at the Department of Psychiatry at Frederiksberg Hospital in Denmark. Here, we...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
September 29, 2022
Tobias Søgaard Juul, Mathias E. Jensen, Anders Fink‐jensen
20 citations
Classic psychedelics were mostly used therapeutically or spiritually and had self-reported positive persisting effects, but were also associated with hazardous use of alcohol, among Danish adults. DMT was associated with significantly greater positive effects compared to LSD and psilocybin.
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
June 29, 2021
Michele Poletti, L. Pelizza, S. Azzali et al.
Abstract Purpose Aberrant salience (AS) is conceptualized as a potential predisposing factor for psychotic states of mind. Despite several studies in the general population, research on AS in the early phases of psychosis is still relatively scarce. The aim of this cross-sectional study is (1) to evaluate the AS subjective experience in Ultra-High Risk (UHR) adolescents and young adults...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
September 1, 2018
Antonio Ventriglio, Iris Bonfitto, Fabiana Ricci et al.
Retracted
Religion and psychiatry may be both considered to be two different ways of explaining the unknown, of responding to questions about the meaning of life, and of bringing healing. To discuss the border between religion and psychiatry. This lecture explores the interface between religion and psychiatry and discusses the border between soul and mind. Religious beliefs may affect behaviours and may...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
July 20, 2017
David Erritzøe, William A. Richards
14 citations
Since the recent re-emergence of research into the effects and safety of psychedelic therapies, a range of psychopathologies such as major depression, cancer-related anxiety and depression, alcohol...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
July 5, 2017
Jens Knud Larsen
15 citations
Despite the significant limitations to a retrospective design, this database warrants caution in mental health patients. The use of LSD and psilocybin in mental health patients may be associated with serious short- and long-term side effects. Until further trials with rigorous designs have cleared these drugs of their potential harms, their clinical utility in these groups of patients has not...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
May 2015
Sabina Palić, Jessica Carlsson, Cherie Armour et al.
Dissociative experiences are common in traumatized individuals, and can sometimes be mistaken for psychosis. It is difficult to identify pathological dissociation in the treatment of traumatized refugees, because there is a lack of systematic clinical descriptions of dissociative phenomena in refugees. Furthermore, we are currently unaware of how dissociation measures perform in this clinical...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
2002
Christopher Göpel, Claudia Laufer, Alexander Marcus
An increase of intoxications in persons using alkaloid-containing ornamental plants (mainly angel's trumpet) for their hallucinogenic effects and easy and cheap availability is registered. It is mainly adolescents who are experimenting with these plants. In addition to severe vegetative anticholinergic symptoms, the clinical picture is often dominated by a toxic psychosis with hallucinations,...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1996
Jørgen Due Madsen, Asle Hoffart
7 citations
Psychotherapeutic treatment with hallucinogens, usually called psycholytic treatment, was used at Modum Bads Nervesanatorium (MBN) on inpatients from 1961 to 1976. The hallucinogens used were LSD, psilocybin, and CZ 74. The indications and the treatment procedure at MBN are described. From 1961 to 1976, 379 patients received 2205 psycholytic treatments, mostly with LSD. From 1970 to 1976, only...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1996
Jørgen Due Madsen, Torbjørg Øyslebø, Asle Hoffart
7 citations
Psychotherapy with LSD was used at Modum Bads Nervesanatorium (MBN) from 1961, and In 968 a questionnaire was sent out to the first 300 patients treated, in which they were to state results and experience of the treatment, psychic condition, and treatment after the hospitalization at MBN. Because the question whether LSD influenced the chromosomes was topical at that time, a major part of the...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1995
Ulla Karilampi, Susanna Carolusson
3 citations
There is reason to believe that multiple personality disorder (MPD) is as frequent in Europe as it is in North America and that the core symptoms are the same. Dissociation is a defence mobilized against the pain and helplessness caused by traumatic experiences. Trauma experienced by dissociative disorder patients is more severe and has started at earlier ages than among patients with other...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1985
Jette Beier, Søren Haastrup
3 citations
This study illustrates the frequency and nature of serious psychiatric complications related to cannabis abuse. A review of recent years' literature referring to this subject leads to the conclusion that it is commonly considered that in rare cases cannabis can induce acute toxic psychosis in premorbidly healthy persons, and that it can also induce aggravation of chronically psychotic...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1962
Knud Knudsen
2 citations
Efter at behandlingen med LSD begyndte på Frederiksberg hospital i 1959 og til den 15. november 1961 har jeg haft 30 patienter i behandling med dette stof. Heraf har 17 udelukkende fået ambulant behandling, henvist til denne af overlæge E. Geert-Jôrgensen. 6 af de 30 har vaeret behandlet under indlæggelse på afdelingen, og 7 patienter har fôrst fået behandling under ind-læggelse og derefter...