Self-experimentations with psychedelics among mental health professionals: LSD in the former Czechoslovakia

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2013.873158" target="_blank" >10.1080/02791072.2013.873158</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Self-experimentations with psychedelics among mental health professionals: LSD in the former Czechoslovakia

Original language description

This article enquires into auto-experiments with psychedelics. It is focused on the experiences and current attitudes of mental health professionals who experimented with LSD in the era of legal research of this substance in the former Czechoslovakia. The objective of the follow-up study presented was to assess respondents´ long-term views on their LSD experience(s). A secondary objective was to capture the attitude of the respondents toward the use of psychedelics within the mental health field. A total of 22 individuals participated in structured interviews. None of the respondents reported any long-term negative effect and all of them except two recorded enrichment in the sphere of self-awareness and/or understanding to those with mental disorder(s). Although there were controversies with regard to the ability of preventing possible negative consequences, respondents were supportive towards self-experiments with LSD in mental health sciences. This article is the first systematic exa

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FL - Psychiatry, sexology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

ISSN

0279-1072

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

46

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

11-19

UT code for WoS article

000334024500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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