CIA Archives: LSD Experiment – Schizophrenic Model Psychosis Induced by LSD-25 – Art Drawing (1955)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Introduced by Sandoz Laboratories, with trade-name Delysid, as a drug with different psychiatric uses in 1947, LSD quickly became a therapeutic agent that appeared to show great promise. In the 1950s the CIA thought it may possibly be applicable to mind manage and chemical warfare the agency’s MKULTRA study system propagated the drug among young servicemen and students. The subsequent recreational use of the drug by youth culture in the Western globe for the duration of the 1960s led to a political firestorm that resulted in its prohibition. Presently, a quantity of organizations—including the Beckley Foundation, MAPS, Heffter Investigation Institute and the Albert Hofmann Foundation—exist to fund, encourage and coordinate study into the medicinal and spiritual utilizes of LSD and related psychedelics. Artists and scientists have been interested in the effect of LSD on drawing and painting considering that it first became readily available for legal use and basic consumption. Dr. Oscar Janiger was 1 of the pioneers in the field studying the relationship between LSD and creativity. What fascinated Janiger was that “paintings, below the influence of LSD, had some of the attributes of what looked like the operate accomplished by schizophrenics.” Janiger maintained that trained artists could “maintain a certain balance, riding the edge” of the LSD induced psychosis, “ride his creative Pegasus.” Janiger coined the term ‘”dry schizophrenia,” exactly where a person was able to control the …
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