In experimental psychiatry the hallucinogenic drugs have a firmly established position; hundreds of articles attest to the growing interest in their psychotomimetic activity. As an adjunct to psychotherapy, however, their potential has been incompletely investigated. The initial mention of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) in this connection appears to be the 1950 publication by Busch and...
The effects of drugs on the abnormal mental state induced by the diethylamide of lysergic acid (LSD-25) are of interest from several points of view. Some means of mitigating too severe a reaction is needed in using LSD-25 experimentally or therapeutically. Since the LSD reaction is measurable and reproducible,1it might be possible to use the LSD psychosis as a screen for predicting the...
This study is concerned with the effect of change in organismic state, induced by a pharmacological agent, upon spatial localization. Aside from the current concern with the psychological effects induced by the drug, d -lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25)* the problem has its roots in two lines of investigation: 1. Studies of perception viewed in terms of an organismic theory of behavior, viz.,...
Mescaline produced an inhibitory state accompanied by a schizokenesis or dissociation of systems. This disharmony was also manifested in that the CS appeared to act in the same manner as the US. On this basis a neurodynamic theory of the mechanism of mescaline's actions is postulated: that under mescaline intoxication and in some mental illnesses, a dissociation of the second and first...
(1955). Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25): VI. Effect upon Recall and Recognition of Various Stimuli. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 443-454.
Research Article| August 01 1954 The action of some ergot derivatives, mescaline and dibenamine on the metabolism of separated mammalian cerebral tissues Joyce L. Lewis; Joyce L. Lewis 1Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Psychiatry (British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London), Maudsley Hospital, S.E. 5 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google...
Mescaline produces altered visual experiences of several types, whose vividness and degree of distortion is proportionate to the size of the dose. There are no sharp boundaries dividing abnormal sensibility, illusions, and hallucinations. Subjects who gave fewer responses of the type "I see it" when asked to imagine situations were more likely to hallucinate than other patients. Visual...
Sexual hallucinations are little known, yet often extremely burdening, phenomena. In this systematic review, we summarize what is known about their phenomenology, prevalence, etiopathology, ensuing distress, and treatment options. Sexual hallucinations can be experienced as genital or orgasmic sensations, although other sensory modalities can also be involved. With the notable exception of...