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In the trials of psychedelic therapy matthew oram traces the early promise and eventual demise of lsd psychotherapy in the united states while the common perception is that lsds prohibition terminated legitimate research oram draws on files from the food and drug administration and the personal papers of lsd researchers to reveal that the . After one chapter recapping lsd research during the 1950s oram concentrates on treatment research that combined lsd with psychotherapy from 1962 to 1976 in a fine case study he discusses in detail the acid projects at spring grove state hospital in catonsville maryland. The trials of psychedelic therapy lsd psychotherapy in america by matthew oram johns hopkins university press 2018 288 pp gbp3330 hb isbn 9781421426204 corrigendum volume 216 issue 5 ben sessa. Yet despite this success lsd officially remained an experimental drug only research into its effects psychological and otherwise dwindled before coming to a close in the 1970s in the trials of psychedelic therapy matthew oram traces the early promise and eventual demise of lsd psychotherapy in the united states while the common . Get this from a library the trials of psychedelic therapy lsd psychotherapy in america matthew oram after lsd arrived in the united states in 1949 the drugs therapeutic promise quickly captured the interests of psychiatrists in the decade that followed modern psychopharmacology was born and