Psychotherapy with the aid of LSD
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry January 1, 1996 Jørgen Due Madsen, Asle Hoffart 7 citations
Between 1961 and 1976, Modum Bads Nervesanatorium in Norway treated 379 inpatients with hallucinogens—LSD, psilocybin, and CZ 74—in a procedure called psycholytic treatment. Patients received 2,205 treatments, mostly with LSD. Forty percent were women, 60% men. Diagnoses included psychoses (4.5%), obsessive neurosis (11.1%), other psychoneuroses (26.3%), sexual deviation (6.3%), other character disorders (46.2%), alcoholism (5.0%), and drug addiction (0.5%). Obsessive neurosis was the primary diagnosis in 1961 (35.7%) and again in the last seven years (75.6%). The mean hospitalization for treated patients was 132 days, nearly double the hospital average of 68 days.