De la psychose expérimentale à la guérison des traumatismes du passé  : la recherche psychédélique en Tchécoslovaquie communiste, 1954‑1974

Marks, Sarah

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“…The identification of these publications is limited by language difficulties and documentation retrieval; in most cases, they do not appear in modern scientific publications portals, as we have verified for French, Spanish, and Italian cases. The historical record of twentieth century psychedelic therapies developed in non-English-speaking countries, such as ex-Czechoslovakia (Marks, 2015), Denmark (Larsen, 2017), Argentina (Scholten, 2017), or in specific cities, such as the case of Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris (Edel, 2017), has more recently been revised. In this article, we review the history of clinical psychedelic research in Italy.…”

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Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

D’Arienzo

Samorini²

2023

Drug Science, Policy and Law

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In recent years, the historical record of psychedelic therapy in Europe and the Americas has undergone considerable revision. In this article, we contribute to this re-interpretation by sharing documentation relating to psychedelic therapy carried out in Italy during the period 1927–1966. Our library research has uncovered one hundred publications, documenting at least 60 clinical studies in which psychedelics were administered. There is evidence of some primacy regarding this psychedelic research: Italy has the world record, for the twentieth century, for having carried out the largest number of clinical studies on patients with psilocybin and with lysergic acid amide (LSA); humans first received the high dose of 500 mcg of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in Italy; and LSD plus LSA, and LSD plus psilocybin, were administered simultaneously for the first time. The most successful Italian clinical studies appear to have been those in which psilocybin was used in the treatment of depressive states, with the observed optimal dose being that of 3 mg administered intravenously every second or third day, alternated with placebo injections. Another therapeutic target that seems to have provided interesting results concerns the use of LSD and psilocybin for what was then called “neurosis.” Italian psychiatrists have also made useful contributions to theoretical aspects concerning psychedelic therapies, for example in the conflicting debate on the “psychotomimetic paradigm” and in the distinction between the “primary” and “secondary” effects of these substances.

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Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

D’Arienzo

Samorini²

2023

Drug Science, Policy and Law

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Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement

Elcock¹

2021

J History Behavioral Science

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Little has been written on the financial support behind Timothy Leary's unorthodox research into mind-altering drugs like LSD and psilocybin and his subsequent psychedelic movement. Indeed several individuals and organizations helped the psychedelic cause by directly funding Leary's ventures, offering legal and logistic assistance, and organizing fund-raising campaigns. I argue that classic philanthropic attitudes and wealthy patrons played a major supporting role for Leary's psychedelic movement in the first part of the decade and that the changes in Leary's research objectives and his transition from academic to LSD guru were accompanied by changes in the patterns of support that occurred throughout the 1960s. This paper also connects Leary's legal troubles in the second part of the decade with the rise of the movement to legalize cannabis and points to historical continuity by looking at contemporary endeavors to fund psychedelic research.

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A Thesis on LSD Research in the Laboratory and the Street: Sensory Deprivation, Surveys and the Mogar Laboratory, Creating Cures

Caldararo

2022

A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions From Research in LSD

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De la psychose expérimentale à la guérison des traumatismes du passé  : la recherche psychédélique en Tchécoslovaquie communiste, 1954‑1974

Abstract: Cahiers du monde russe Russie-Empire russe-Union soviétique et États indépendants 56/1 | 2015 Fictions d'avenir : sciences et temps des socialismes est-européens From experimental psychosis to resolving traumatic pasts

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Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement

A Thesis on LSD Research in the Laboratory and the Street: Sensory Deprivation, Surveys and the Mogar Laboratory, Creating Cures

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De la psychose expérimentale à la guérison des traumatismes du passé : la recherche psychédélique en Tchécoslovaquie communiste, 1954‑1974

Abstract: Cahiers du monde russe Russie-Empire russe-Union soviétique et États indépendants 56/1 | 2015 Fictions d'avenir : sciences et temps des socialismes est-européens From experimental psychosis to resolving traumatic pasts

Cited by 14 publications

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Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

Italian psychedelic therapies of the past century: An historical overview

Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement

A Thesis on LSD Research in the Laboratory and the Street: Sensory Deprivation, Surveys and the Mogar Laboratory, Creating Cures

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