MESCALINE HALLUCINATIONS IN ARTISTS
Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry 1941 DOI: 10.1001/archneurpsyc.1941.02280130140009 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Mescaline |
| Topics | Mescaline |
| Keywords | Visual hallucination Subject documents Psychosis Cognitive psychology Psychoanalysis Hallucinogen |
| Citations | 25 |
| Key points | Argues that theories of hallucinations have been influenced by the specific material studied, and that experimental induction of hallucinations with mescaline in normal subjects offers a fruitful approach to overcome limitations of studying patient verbal descriptions. |
Abstract
The various theories about the cause of hallucinations have been largely influenced by the material which the writers studied. Thus, Mayer-Gross formed his theory on observation of the fantom limb, Schroeder on observation of delirious states and Vogt on experience with electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex. It lies in the nature of the subject that its study is based mainly on verbal descriptions, given by patients with more or less impaired ability to describe their experiences. It was realization of this drawback which made so attractive the study of hallucinations experimentally produced in normal subjects by drugs such as mescaline. Work by Mayer-Gross, Stein, Zucker and others has proved the fruitfulness of this study of "experimental psychosis." Mescaline hallucinations are predominantly, though not exclusively, visual, so that a description of them by means of drawings and pictures could be expected to be somewhat more impressive, and perhaps more realistic,
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on mescaline, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schizophrenia: A New Approach. II. Result of a Year's Research | 1954 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Thought insertion as a self-disturbance: An integration of predictive coding and phenomenological approaches | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Entactogens: How the Name for a Novel Class of Psychoactive Agents Originated | 2022 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Steric and Electronic Relationships among Some Hallucinogenic Compounds | 1970 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| EFFECT OF DRUGS One individual | 1952 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | n = 1 |
Citations in the library
Cited by 7
- Breakdown or Breakthrough? A History of European Research into Drugs and Creativity The Journal of Creative Behavior December 1, 1999
- Jekyll and Hyde Revisited: Paradoxes in the Appreciation of Drug Experiences and Their Effects on Creativity Journal of Psychoactive Drugs September 1, 2002
- HALLUCINATION AND IMAGERY INDUCED BY MESCALINE American Journal of Psychiatry March 1, 1950
- Julian Trevelyan, Walter Maclay and Eric Guttmann: drawing the boundary between psychiatry and art at the Maudsley Hospital. British journal for the history of science December 1, 2019
- Hallucinations a Troix Archives of General Psychiatry September 1, 1959
and 2 more in the library