LSD still available in Switzerland

[David Morris]

This article is particularly good:

http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/lsd02.htm

At a 1965 LSD conference Dr. Sidney Cohen, an American authority on LSD, 
summed up the claims made for LSD and LSD-like drugs by psychiatrists:
1. They reduce the patient's defensiveness and allow repressed memories and 
conflictual material to come forth. The recall of these events is improved 
and the abreaction is intense.
2. The emerging material is better understood because the patient sees the 
conflict as a visual image or in vivid visual symbols. It is accepted 
without being overwhelming because the detached state of awareness makes the 
emerging guilt feelings less devastating.
3. The patient feels closer to the therapist and it is easier for him to 
express his irrational feelings.
4. Alertness is not impaired and insights are retained after the drug has 
worn off.

Under skilled treatment procedures, the hallucinogens do seem to produce 
these effects and one more which is not often mentioned. That is a marked 
heightening of the patient's suggestibility.

Put in another way, the judgmental attitude of the patient toward the 
experience itself is diminished. This can be helpful, for insights are 
accepted without reservations and seem much more valid than under non-drug 
conditions.




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