PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Neuromuscular Junction, Codeine, Pseudohallucination
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Psychedelic drugs - induce a reality-altering experience consisting of hallucinations, sensory distortions, or delusions, psychedelic = mind expanding, 3 categories, hallucinogens (ex. Origins of lsd & other hallucinogens: primitive cultures: psychic medicines to treat maladies, communicate with gods, perform magic, aztecs: peyote, religious ceremonies, perceptions of great insight & altered realities + visual hallucinations made experience of communicating with gods. Nmj = neuromuscular junction: native american: peyote, religious ceremonies, quanah parker (comanche chief) 1908: use spread to college during 50s and 60s. Helped persuade oklahome state legislature to overturn ban on peyote in: today, schedule i ban, but excludes use for religious purposes by the native. American church of n. america: u. s. army: tested lsd. Interrogating prisoners: chemical weapon, psychoanalysis era: lsd. Lsd ingestion & effects: to gain access to unconscious thoughts in patients and shorten psychotherapy, busch and johnson, 1950, published 1st paper, cohen, 1960: lsd survey of 44 researchers & therapists, >25,000 lsd administrations.
