Self-Experimentations with Psychedelics Among Mental Health Professionals: LSD in the Former Czechoslovakia
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs January 1, 2014 Petr Winkler, Ladislav Csémy 36 citations
Mental health professionals who participated in legal LSD research in former Czechoslovakia reported no long-term negative effects from their self-experiments. In structured interviews with 22 individuals, all but two described enrichment in self-awareness or understanding of people with mental disorders. Despite concerns about preventing adverse reactions, respondents supported self-experimentation with LSD in mental health science. This work is the first systematic examination of psychedelic self-experimentation behind the Iron Curtain.