LSD before Leary - Sidney Cohen' s Critique of 1950s Psychedelic Drug Research Steven J. Novak Isis, 1997, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 87-110. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199703%2988%3A1%3C87%3ALBLSCC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W ABSTRACT In 1962 Sidney Cohen presented the medical community with its first warning about the dangers of the drug LSD. LSD had arrived in the United States in 1949 and was originally perceived as a psychoto-mimetic capable of producing a model psychosis. But in the mid 1950s intellectuals in Southern California redefined LSD as a psychedelic capable of producing mystical enlightenment. Though LSD was an investigational drug, authorized only for experimental use, by the late 1950s psychiatrists and psychologists were [...]
Lire la suiteThe fourfold discovery of Mescaline (1896–1919) Ivo Gurschler Chemical Monthly, 2019, 150, 941–947 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2019 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-019-02444-0 Abstract This is an historical account of the pharmacological, chemical, and anthropological research concerning the molecular makeup of the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) that laid the ground for Ernst Spaeth’s structural elucidation of mescaline as 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine. Keywords : History of science · Psychedelic studies · Organic chemistry · Alkaloids · Mescaline · Drugs Introduction The exploration of the constituents of the peyote cactus and its effects upon the human psyche was an interdisciplinary undertaking that defied national borders. The material way to the heart of the [...]
Lire la suitehttp://psychedelic-library.org/lsdmenu.htm Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon. — Rumi: Masnavi I Ma'navi Introductory Papers The Exploration of Experience by: Humphrey Osmond, an excerpt from his 1957 paper "A Review of the Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents" Psychedelics, Technology, Psychedelics by: Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond, the introductory chapter to PSYCHEDELICS, the Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs Psychedelics and the Future by Humphry Osmond and Bernard S. Aaronson Request for a Public Hearing to: The Hearing Clerk, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Menus Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Drugs Psychedelic Research [...]
Lire la suiteThe Secret of the Kykeon Peter Webster The Psychedelic Library The original hypothesis of The Road to Eleusis suggests that the ergot species Claviceps purpurea, collected by the hierophantic priests from its natural and common parasitisation on barley growing in the Rarian plain adjacent to Eleusis, was the probable active ingredient of the kykeon, the psychoactive potion used in the yearly Rite at Eleusis. It was further suggested that the hierophants would have processed the C. purpurea ergot by dissolving off the water-soluble alkaloids since this fraction contained ergonovine, the principal hypothesised psychoactive compound, a lysergic acid amide very similar in structure to, [...]
Lire la suitePeyote - Mescaline Scientific Papers AEDMP - Asociación para el Estudio y la Divulgación de la Medicina Psicodélica Research conducted by : Juan Spuch & Genís Oña Divulgación de la Medicina Psicodélica. Castellarnau, 11 2º 1ª 43004 Tarragona Spain Tel. 675 55 33 44 Email: medicina.psicodelica@hotmail.com www.medicinapsicodelica.org Content _____________________________________ 1. What is peyote? 2. Scientific papers about peyote - mescaline arranged chronologically (1954-2012) - H. Denber & S. Merlis (1954). A Note on Some Therapeutic Implications of the Mescaline induced State - C. Landis & J. Clausen (1954). Certain Effects of Mescaline and Lysergic Acid on Psychological Functions - J. Cattell (1954). The Influence of Mescaline on Psychodynamic Material - W. Frederking (1955). Intoxicant [...]
Lire la suiteThe LSD Therapy Career of Jan Bastiaans, M.D. Stephen Snelders Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS : 1998, Vol 8, N° 1, pp. 18-20 JAN BASTIAANS WAS 23 YEARS OLD and a medical student at the University of Amsterdam when the German army invaded the Netherlands. The German occupation (1940-1945) had a lasting influence on his life and work. The first aim of Bastiaans' use of LSD and psilocybin in psychotherapy was to help victims of World War II: the survivors of the war who had become extremely traumatized by their experiences in the German and Japanese prisons and concentration [...]
Lire la suiteThe Bastiaans Method of Drug-Assisted Therapy A preliminary follow-up study with former clients Hans Ossebaard & Nicole Maalste Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS : 1999, Vol 9, N° 2, pp. 3-9 This study was made possible in part by a grant to MAPS from the Promind Foundation The present pilot study is a preliminary investigation among former clients who participated in therapy supervised by Bastiaans and his collaborators (see MAPS Bulletin, VIII (2), p. 3; 1998) and conducted with the help of hallucinogenic drugs. This follow-up study aims to systematically establish the subjective judgements of clients, to work out a profile that [...]
Lire la suiteNeurotoxicity and LSD treatment : a follow-up study of 151 patients in Denmark Jens Knud Larsen University Hospital of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark History of Psychiatry, 2016, Vol. 27, (2), 172–189 DOI: 10.1177/0957154X16629902 Abstract LSD was introduced in psychiatry in the 1950s. Between 1960 and 1973, nearly 400 patients were treated with LSD in Denmark. By 1964, one homicide, two suicides and four suicide attempts had been reported. In 1986 the Danish LSD Damages Law was passed after complaints by only one patient. According to the Law, all 154 applicants received financial compensation for LSD-inflicted harm. The Danish State Archives has preserved the case material of 151 [...]
Lire la suiteAlessandro Stella Directeur de recherche CNRS Equipe(s) : GEI Laboratoire(s) de rattachement : CRH Coordonnées professionnelles EHESS-CRH GEI (Bureau A 04-11) 54, boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris alessandro.stella (a) wanadoo.fr 01 49 54 24 42 http://gei.ehess.fr/index.php?942 Diplômes 1987 : Diplôme de l’EHESS, sous la direction de Mme Christiane Klapisch-Zuber : « Sur les traces laissées par les Ciompi en révolte : les hommes, les lieux, le travail », rapporteur M. Jacques Le Goff. Prix du meilleur diplôme de l’EHESS. 1992 : Doctorat de l’EHESS, sous la direction de Mme Christiane Klapisch-Zuber : « Un tableau florentin du Trecento. Fiscalité, topographie et société dans la deuxième moitié du XIVe siècle ». Mention : « Très honorable ». 2007 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université [...]
Lire la suiteLes Champignons dans la culture. A propos d'un livre de M. R. G. Wasson Claude Lévi-Strauss L'Homme, 1970, 10-1, pp. 5-16 On sait que les hymnes du RgVeda font une place considérable à une plante enivrante, le Soma, dont le suc exprimé et filtré, puis coupé de lait frais ou caillé, était consommé par les prêtres au cours du rituel et principalement, semble-t-il, par ceux chargés d'incarner le dieu Indra et son cocher Vâyu. Chez les anciens Iraniens, une boisson enivrante, appelée Haoma dans l'Avesta, était sans doute la même chose que le Soma. Depuis le xvme siècle, les [...]
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