PSYCHOLYTIC AND PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY RESEARCH 1931-1995.

A COMPLETE INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR

By TORSTEN PASSIE

Preface by Hanscarl Leuner.

Published by Laurentius, Hannover, Germany:  1997.

This book is a Soft Cover in Fine Condition with102 pages.

Photograph of a 1960s psycholytic therapy session in Czechoslovakia pasted in, as issued.

First Edition, Regular Issue,

Inscribed by the author.   "To my dear friend Michael, 8/ 1999 , Torsten Passie"

Contains nearly 700 entries with author and subject indices.  An indispensable reference work, covering both the psycholytic (low dose preferred by European researchers) and psychedelic (moderate to high dose) therapy favored in the UK, Canada and the U.S. 

 Listings includes both books and contributions to books and journals.    Hanscarl Leuner was one of the major European figures in early therapy with LSD, mescaline and MDMA.    

CONTENTS

Preface   

I. Introduction      

II. Organization of the Bibliography

III. Bibliography

1. General Approach and Basic Research •

2. Psycholytic Therapy •

3. Psychedelic Therapy •

IV. Major Scientific Conferences on the Subject        

V. Major Bibliographic Sources

Author Index  

Subject Index

About the Authors 

ORGANIZATION OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

As mentioned before, this bibliography has been compiled out of the need to collect and organize the widely dispersed literature of 65 years of scientific research and make it available for future studies. In its present form it contains nearly 700 entries from all over the world.

It should be noted that most of the material was published before 1970. Therefore bibliographic information about it is still not available in computerized form. Searching for literature in other than the common languages also presented difficulties.

A further problem existed because contributions to anthologies are generally not included in bibliographic indexes, Out of these challenges the author developed a kind of „snowball” approach to make this bibliography nearly complete.

In order to utilize the bibliographies of all the collected publications to obtain further references and for producing the subject index by first-hand examination of each publication it was necessary to see all publications in their original form.

 Some papers were difficult to classify by subject, but the author hopes his judgement was sufficient to the task.

In regard to bibliographies of the past, there were only two explicit attempts made: A Bibliography of L.S.D. & Mescaline. From the Earliest Re-searches to the Beginning of Suppression by Oscar Janiger & Gertrude Paltin (San Francisco 1971) and Catalogue of the Literature on Delysid by Sandoz Ltd. (Hanover, NJ 1960ff.). Neither work was officially published or made available through regular libraries.

They contain some relevant material, but they do not focus on therapeutic applications and are quite incomplete. There-fore their usefulness for compiling this bibliography was limited. Other works which contain relevant bibliographies are listed in chapter V.

All cited publications are grouped into three categories:

1. General Approach and Basic Research

Includes publications which reported on both forms of therapy, anthologies which include material about both approaches, unspecified review articles, basic research directly related to therapeutic applications, heuristic and historic studies.

2. Psycholytic Therapy

Includes all publications which deal with the psycholytic method as de-fined by the introduction. It also contains research which was done in the context or is result of psycholytic therapy.

3. Psychedelic Therapy

Includes all publications which deal with the psychedelic method as de-fined by the introduction. It also contains research which was done in the context or is result of psychedelic therapy.

Additional information about the organization of the bibliography should be mentioned:

1. First and last names of authors are cited as they appear in the original publications (first names are also abbreviated as in the original publications).

Different first names (more than one first name or different initials of the same author) were not respected for changing the alphabetic resp. year of publication order system.

2. All names of journals are cited completely without abbrevations to avoid complications by different abbrevation systems.

3. Cited are only scientific journals which are officially published (since 1971 marked by ISSN numbers).

4. Books are cited only as first editions. Foreign editions are cited separately as subsequent entries, but are not numbered.

5. All titles of publications not originally published in English are translated into English. The translations appear in brackets after the original title. Wherever possible, translations from the „Index Medicus” were used. • Abstracts are only cited for studies that are otherwise unpublished. They are marked by „[Abstract:]” in front of the title.

6. In regard to substances, LSD is not mentioned as a subject (it is too common), but all other substances mentioned (including additional medications) are indexed as subjects.

Acknowledgements:

I want to thank the following persons who helped to produce the bibliography: Ingeborg Heering, Raimund Dehmlow and other librarians, Thomas Mahr, Geri Dharma Defrese DO, MS, Udo Benzenhofer MD, PhD and Michael Horowitz. Special thanks to Sylvia Thyssen MA for working on the corrections and MAPS (Rick Doblin) for sponsoring part of the translation.

MORE ABOUT == Prof. Dr. med. Torsten Passie, MA * 1961

Curriculum vitae - scientific career

1. Studied philosophy and sociology (MA) at the University of Hannover and studied medicine at the Hannover Medical School.

2. PhD with Prof. Karl Peter Kisker with a thesis on existence philosophical aspects of psychiatric disorders, which received the Promotion Award of the Hannover Medical School and has been running under the title "phenomenological-anthropological psychiatry and psychology".

3. Interest in shamanism resulted in study trips to Mexico and Guatemala. For more than two decades special interest in psychotherapy, phenomenological psychiatry, consciousness research, hallucinogens, shamanism, altered states of consciousness as well as the research and therapeutic work with mind-altering techniques.

4. From 1994-1996 medical staff in practice Prof. Hans Carl Leuner (Göttingen), who was regarded as a leading European expert in the field of hallucinogenic substances.  From 1996 to 1997 clinical activities at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich.  Since then, cooperation with Prof. Christian Scharfetter.

5. From 1998-2010 research assistant, psychiatrist and psychotherapist at the Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School.

6. In addition to a broad clinical development work on research projects, including clinical and experimental neuropsychopharmacological studies on the anesthetic ketamine and nitrous oxide as well as the hallucinogenic mushroom drug psilocybin.  In addition, extensive psychophysiological studies on various forms of trance-inducing techniques and therapeutic work with altered states of consciousness.

7. Habilitation in 2007 with Professor Hinderk M. Emrich with the theme "Psychophysical correlates altered states of alertness."

8. From 2005-2010 Medical Director of the Hanover model project for heroin assisted treatment clinic Opiatabhänggier the Hannover Medical School.

9. Training in Mediation (certified by BM) and breath-centered psychotherapy (Pleske).

10. Since 2006 guest lecturer and research associate at the Laboratory of Integrative Psychiatry of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA).

11. 2007 together with Prof. John H. Halpern (Harvard Medical School, USA) patenting an LSD derivative for the treatment of cluster headache.  In 2008, co-founder and since then scientific director (Chief Scientific Officer) of the company Entheogen Corporation (Delaware, USA ), which is engaged in the development of derivatives of various hallucinogenic substances to medicines.

12. Since 2011, visiting scientist at the Senckenberg Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Frankfurt / Main.

13. Since June 2012 extraordinary professorship at the Hannover Medical School.

14. Since July 2012 Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston / USA.