The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy

by Harold Alexander Abramson (editor)

s/t: Transactions of a Conference on d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25), 4/22-24/1959, Princeton, NJ
Participants (25 listed)
Introductory Remarks--Fremond-Smith et alia
Psychoanalytic Therapy w/LSD--Abramson
Nature of the Psychological Response to LSD--Sandison
Symbolysis--Van Rhijn
Study of Communication Processes under LSD--Lennard/Hewitt
Resolution of Counter-identification Conflict of Father during
Oedipal Phase of Son--Abramson
Index

Genres: Drugs

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This little gem represents some of the early research findings about the psychotherapeutic efficacy of LSD before the US government forbade all research on the chemical. Interestingly, of course, the ban on such research did not apply to the CIA or the Department of Defense, both of which continued such work under, even more interestingly, Dr. Harold Alexander Abramson and others--Abramson having begun his work for the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind-control program in 1953 and being the attending physician in the suicide of Army scientist Frank Olsen.

The head of the Macy Foundation, a founder of the World Federation for Mental Health and of the Cybernetics Group, Frank Fremont-Smith, convener of this conference, was likely turned on to the drug and its (overt therapeutic and covert coercive) potentials by Abramson.

Abramson organized a series of six conferences on LSD and related psychotropics beginning in 1959. In 1967 he published his The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism, the drug having proved highly efficacious in the treatment of addiction.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This listing is two separate books

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1960
304 pages
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy
Published 1960 by Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (NYC)

1967
697 pages
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy
Published 1967 by Bobbs-Merrill


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As for the first one

1960
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy: Transactions of a Conference on d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25)
(April 22, 23 & 24, 1959)

by Harold A. Abramson, Editor

(New York: Josiah Macy)

CONTENTS:

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with LSD
The Nature of the Psychological Response to LSD
Symbolysis: Psychotherapy by Symbolic Presentation
The Study of Communication Processes under LSD
Resolution of Counter-Identification Conflict of Father During Oedipal Phase of Son