LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine

When LSD use spread widely in the late 1960s, public alarm and new laws brought psychotherapeutic research with the drug to an almost complete halt. Decades of careful medical study were distorted or buried, leaving general readers without a fair summary. This book gathers that work into a full account of the period. Grof presents findings from controlled studies on consciousness, perception and the nature of reality, and uses them to sketch a new map of the mind that makes room for shamanic trances, near-death experiences and other altered states. The same thinking underpins his Holotropic Breathwork methods. Many colour drawings and paintings made by research participants appear throughout, several showing archetypal figures that echo a shared human imagination. The book is intended for parents, teachers, researchers, lawmakers and students of the psyche who want an informed view of the subject.