The Experimental Use of Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy
JAMA June 15, 1970 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1970.03170240060010 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | LSD |
| Keywords | Psychotherapist Hallucinogen |
| Citations | 214 |
| Key points | Argues that research with psychedelic drugs has produced a variety of methods and conflicting claims, from early interest in LSD as a model psychosis to later reports of its use as an aid to psychotherapy. |
Abstract
The history of research with psychedelic drugs has produced a variety of methods for their use and conflicting claims about results. First came the wave of excitement among experimentalists in the 1950s when it was claimed that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) could produce a model psychosis which might be useful in understanding schizophrenia. While this promise was fading, enthusiastic reports about the possibility of LSD as an aid to psychotherapy in the treatment of alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders appeared. All these approaches were represented in 1959 at the first international conference devoted entirely to LSD. 1 Since then, there have been at least five more published proceedings of such conferences on various aspects of psychedelic drugs. 2-6 The most recent conference on various means of producing states of consciousness was sponsored by the Menninger Foundation and the American Association of Humanistic Psychology on April 7 to 11, 1969, in
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on LSD, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSD: My Problem Child | 1981 | Historical analysis | |
| On the Use and Abuse of LSD | 1968 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Use of Music in Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy | 1972 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Flashbacks: Recurrent Intrusive Images After the Use of LSD | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Untoward Reactions to Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) Resulting in Hospitalization | 1965 | Historical analysis |
Citations in the library
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Cites 12
- In Vivo and in Vitro Chromosomal Damage Induced by LSD-25 New England Journal of Medicine November 16, 1967
- The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death Harvard Theological Review 1969
- A Controlled Comparison of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) and Dextroamphetamine in Alcoholics American Journal of Psychiatry April 1, 1969
- A Clinical Study of LSD Treatment in Alcoholism American Journal of Psychiatry July 1, 1969
- Leukocytes of Humans Exposed to Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Lack of Chromosomal Damage Science October 27, 1967
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