Over a five-year period, thirty patients in a maximum security mental hospital were treated with LSD (500 mcmg. I.M.). Three different styles of interviewing procedure evolved with experience: a medical model, a “responsible street model”, and a non-directive model. The interviewer's orientation appeared to significantly affect the patient's perception of the LSD experience. Since it was felt...
RésuméLes auteurs ont comparé des patients souffrant, à la suite de l'ingestion de LSD, de psychoses semblables à la schizophrénie, à des patients chez qui la schizophrénie est apparue en l'absence de l'emploi de drogues. Ils ont examiné les traits cliniques des syndromes et l'incidence familiale de la schizophrénie. Ils exposent en détail les différences observées; elles semblent confirmer...
This study explored two hypotheses — that the dream report content of groups are different from each other; and that with significant psychological change in a group there will be significant alteration in their dream report content. This study supported the first hypothesis — different groups do indeed have different dream report content (male paranoid schizophrenics compared to male college...
This paper indicates the relevance of recent dream research findings to some of Freud's psychoanalytic contentions on dreaming. The historical development in this field is reviewed, along with recent pertinent laboratory findings. Theories concerning the nature of sleep and experimental work on this are discussed. Some characteristics of the REM and NREM states, along with the phenomena of...
Comparison was made among the electroencephalograms of eleven patients with psychotic reactions after the use of cannabis, twenty-nine patients admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, ten for neurological consultations and eleven cannabis users with no apparent psychiatric implications. It was found that there was a greater increase in the EEG abnormalities of cannabis users than in the...
Lysergic acid diethylamide (L.S.D.), given with and without a therapist present, is compared with sodium amylobarbitone-methedrine (S.A.M.), given with á therapist present, as abreactive agents in the treatment of alcoholism. Somatic, cognitive and affective experiences under the different treatment conditions are compared. L.S.D. produced a different quality of response from S.A.M. in many...
The Ultraconscious (nirvana, satori, samedhi, ‘cosmic consciousness’, unto mystica, etc.) is a supra-sensory, supra-rational level of expanded consciousness which has been known since antiquity, yet has received little attention from modern psychiatry. Dr. Richard Bucke in his book Cosmic Consciousness listed the following phenomena at the ultimate peak of ultraconsciousness, regardless of the...
L'auteur passe en revue les études que l'on a faites sur l'emploi des stimulus en-gendrant la répugnance, ou de la diéthylamide de l'acide lysergique dans le traitement de l'alcoolisme. Ces stimulus étaient l'apomorphine, l'émétine, la scoline et le choc électrique. Rien n'indique à l'évidence que ces méthodes sont plus efficaces que les autres, non excitantes, pour traiter les alcooliques....
To summarize briefly: Converging data from many disciplines — psychology, psychiatry, social theory, biochemistry, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology — point to the sensory input regulating mechanism of the central nervous system as a critical factor in the production of hallucinoses and psychotic experience. There is good evidence that what we have called the informational underload model...
The author describes his experience with LSD-25 as an adjunct to long-term psychotherapy in 24 patients between September, 1962 and May, 1965, involving a total of 56 LSD-25 sessions for a total duration of 119 1/4 hours. Where therapy blocks developed which could not be overcome, narcoanalysis with or without methylphenidate † was used and if this was not successful LSD-25 was considered. The...
Since 1959, 68 alcoholics have been treated with LSD. Twenty-six patients reported sobriety in the follow-up period. The nature of the experience appeared to bear an independent relationship to abstinence.
In this paper we have described some aspects of the LSD-25 treatment given to alcoholics in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. The three main therapeutic reactions discussed are (1) abreaction, (2) the transcendental experience and (3) break-down of inappropriate defence mechanisms. Some case histories are given to illustrate these therapeutic reactions and to give an idea of the kind of person who can be...
1. A method of using L.S.D. 25 in the treatment of sexual perversions is given, using a large dose and single administration, requiring admission for three days. 2. Two illustrative case histories are given.
Sernyl was administered to 55 patients, chosen at random from the population of a mental hospital. Its disinhibiting potential appears to be related to the dose. Sernyl in doses of 0.07 mgms/kg administered in 7 minutes by the intravenous route activated the patients specific psychopathology to a greater degree than known psychotomimetics (LSD 25 and Mescaline Sulfate). Physiological and...
1. An experiment of size constancy has been carried out on 18 volunteers who took 35 gamma of L.S.D. 2. The subjects served as their own controls. 3. The effect of L.S.D. was an increase of the variability of performance of each individual.