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by Dr Ben Sessa
Last updated: February 2017
What are psychedelic drugs? Are they simply dangerous drugs of abuse? Or sacramental tools used by non-Western cultures for spiritual value?
Can they assist us in our study of human consciousness and the physiology of the brain? Or treat patients with unremitting mental health problems?
Psychedelics have a controversial history and the subject has always been divisive. This module will look objectively and scientifically at the relative risks and benefits of psychedelic drugs in order to:
We will look at the development of these drugs within the profession of psychiatry, including:
their meteoric rise in the 1950s
their fall in the 1960s
the hiatus of the last 40 years
the re-emergence of interest in psychedelics in recent years.
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