IN RECENT years, the interest shown by behavioral scientists in creativity has reflected what has for a long time been a popular preoccupation. 1-6 Willing authors have come forward, informing us how to acquire it, whether we must be neurotic to use it, and how to discover if we have that divine fire. Attempts have been made to define the process involved, enumerate the steps essential to its...
In psychiatric literature, one of the most interesting and complex personality abnormalities is transvestism. We will present a case of a man who is a transvestite, drug addict, alcoholic, and sadomasochist. A multitude of psychiatric papers have been written on the symptomatology and etiology of transvestism, but few on treatment. \N'e will present our observations of the symptomatology,...
THE USE of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in nonmedical settings is currently receiving a great deal of attention. Reports in the literature have indicated that such use of LSD can induce severe panic states and psychotic reactions.1-3These reactions have at times been described as being dangerous to the individual taking the drug, as well as occasionally to those around him. The seriousness...
Psychedelics or hallucinogenic drugs have been used in natural forms for at least 3,000 years.Due to the recent discovery of LSD by Dr. Albert Hofmann, and to some extent to the sensational press reports concerning the effects of the drug, ministers, divinity students, movie stars, housewives, high school and college students, as well as psychologists, medical doctors, and 1
The rationale of psychedelic therapy with alcoholic patients is focused on the alienation-breaking potential of "peak" or psychedelic experiences induced with the aid of LSD. An exemplary LSD session report and MMPI data on 69 pilot patients are presented for illustration. While all present results indicate that psychedelic therapy does add significantly to presently available alcoholic...
Addition of lysergic acid diethylamide to cultured human leukocytes resulted in a marked increase of chromosomal abnormalities. The distribution of chromosome breaks deviated significantly from random, with an accumulation of aberrations in chromosome No. 1. Cytogenetic investigation of a patient extensively treated with this drug over a 4-year period for paranoid schizophrenia showed a similar...
In carrying out short term therapy involving one to six sessions with doses of 75 μ g. to 200 μ g. of LSD, the author gained a definite clinical impression that suggestibility was influenced by LSD, although there is little mention of such a parameter in the classification of LSD effects. Remarks meant to be helpful sometimes proved much more effective whilst patients were influenced by LSD...
THE INCREASED abuse of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) has aroused popular concern for its complications and has led the leading pharmaceutical manufacturer to withdraw its supplies from investigational use. Recent reports, especially those in the lay press, give the impression of an increasing incidence of persistent psychoses, associating the observations with the illicit use of LSD.1,2 The...