LSD: The Highway To Mental Health

by Dr. Milan Hausner with Erna Segal

THE HIGHWAY TO MENTAL HEALTH Milan Hausner, M.D., with Erna Segal ...Dr. Milan Hausner is perhaps the only psychiatrist in the world who has worked with hallucinogens in a clinical environment for as many years with so many patients on so large a scale... For 20 years, Dr. Milan Hausner treated mentally ill patients with LSD in conjunction with psychotherapy while he was Medical Director of the psychiatric clinic at Sadska near Prague in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). The psycholytic system Dr. Hausner specialized in at his 112-bed clinic used dosages of LSD ranging from 50 to 400 mcg and were administered in up to 60, sometimes 90, sessions on an outpatient--and weekend--basis, in conjunction with psychotherapy. Cure time ranged from 6 to 12 months depending on the severity of the illness. The disorders that responded favorably to psycholysis included numerous forms of neuroses, phobias and some psychotic illnesses. In the course of Dr. Milan Hausner's work, his clinic near Prague gained international recognition as the largest facility of its kind, supervising over 3,000 therapeutic sessions with LSD involving more than 300 patients. As a result, his clinic became one of the most extensive LSD centers in the world.

293 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2009