D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD 25), first synthesized in 1938, is a synthetic amide that induces psychic states where subjects become aware of repressed memories and unconscious material while remaining conscious. In a one-year preliminary study of 36 psychoneurotic patients, the drug shows promise for treating psychoneuroses and related mental illnesses.
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is valuable in the psychotherapy of neuroses. The drug's mechanism of action is examined through dynamic psychology, specifically Jungian analytical psychology. Neuroses result from a faulty relationship between conscious and unconscious minds, leading to a one-sided conscious viewpoint. This paper adopts the Jungian conception of the unconscious to explore how LSD may correct this imbalance.