Mistyczna transformacja. Substancje psychedeliczne w leczeniu zaburzeń psychicznych
Mystical transformation. Psychedelic substances in the treatment of mental illnesses

Summary/Abstract: Mental disorders have become the scourge of modern post-industrial societies subjected to an influence of rapidly changing civilizational environment. In the middle of the last century, the discovery of potential of LSD and psilocybin made them first psychedelics used in the context of psychology. Among the precursors of their use on the field of psychotherapy was an employee of the University of Harvard, author of the interpersonal theory of personality, Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary acknowledged them an important role in the evolution of the human species as well as in treatment of mental disorders, which he confirmed in his penitentiary experiments where he achieved significant reduction of criminal tendencies in the control group of prisoners. The key to get positive results was an experience by inmates of psychotic states generated by LSD, as well as their intensive mystical insights in the nature of reality.

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