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KEITH S. DITMAN, M.D.; JOHN R. B. WHITTLESEY, M.S.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1959;1(1):47-57.

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Introduction

Recently psychiatry has had a renewed interest in drugs with "hallucinogenic" properties. New ones are being made, or extracted from plants, at a rapid rate. These drugs are being used more and more widely in treatment and in psychodynamic investigations. We are struck by the many claims that have been made about these psychopharmacological agents and, in particular, have noted the varied and often contradictory descriptions of their psychic effects—effects which have been labeled "experimental schizophrenia," "model psychosis," "toxic delirium," and so on. In this paper our interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD-25, is not particularly in its value in psychotherapy, or with its use as an agent for investigation of psychodynamics. Rather, our interest is in developing an objective method for studying the subjective aspects of these experiences. We have sought a method which would not interfere with the experience, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 22, 1958.

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) was supplied by Mr. Harry Althouse, of Sandoz, Inc., San Francisco.

Read before the 114th Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May 16, 1958.

Alcoholism Research Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center.

This research was supported by a grant from the Division of Alcoholic Rehabilitation, State of California Department of Public Health.

The computations involved were made with the assistance of the IBM facilities of the Western Data Processing Center, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California at Los Angeles.

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