LSD still available in Switzerland

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kwp schrieb:

> Just heard in radio that in Switzerland since the eighties the so called 
> "psycholytic therapy" is used in which clients  take LSD f. e., but also MDMA 
> and other drugs.  
> This kind of therapy is ALLOWED and LEGAL. Does anybody know  more about it?


   sure. "in our opinion, psychoactive drugs such as mdma, lsd and others that 
   have proven therapeutic application, have been erroneously placed on the list 
   of schedule 1. we are working to correct this mistake on the international 
   level, and though in switzerland it is possible under current law to obtain 
   exemption permits, these procedures could be greatly simplified. in our 
   opinion, psychoactive substances such as mdma do not belong to the category 
   of narcotics, since no narcotic effect is in evidence, but rather, on the 
   contrary, facilitate the laying bare of emotional structures. they can thus 
   help in bringing clarity and insight into unconscious mechanisms, a realm 
   hardly reached by conventional methods. they have been of such great help in 
   our psychotherapeutic work that we see tremendous loss if these substances 
   are not made available on a broader scale", as samuel widmer wrote in the 
   early 90s. today the situation is, if i'm informed correctly, still pretty 
   much the same. for every (training- or therapy-) group, that wants to work 
   with psilocybin, mdma or lsd legally, the swiss authorities have to give 
   their ok in each single case. the sessions take place in the therapist's 
   rooms. no one, this is very important, is allowed to leave. in contrary to 
   gestalt- or body-work, the psycholytic therapy is not about expressing 
   your feelings but about staying with them and all these strange sounds &    
   visions s i l e n t l y. sometimes helping music gets played, though. most 
   of the time the participants be lying on the ground with eyes closed. the day 
   after the whole group comes together again to see what has been found out. 
   "psycholyse" is the therapeutic (or also spiritual) work with psychoactive 
   substances. in case you want to know more, you can read books by samuel 
   widmer, who is doing it for more than 30 years and a reputated man in the 
   german speaking therapeutic scene (its anti-pointsman wing, that is). his 
   magnum opus, which is also the most relevant in the given context, is: ins 
   herz der dinge lauschen. vom erwachen der liebe. über mdma und lsd: die 
   unerwünschte psychotherapie. solothurn 1997 (third, elaborated edition): 
   nachtschatten. or perhaps you take up the phone now and call widmer to ask if 
   there's still a place for you in his next therapy or training group? 

kai frederik