The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy; Transactions of a Conference on d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25), April 22,23, and 24 1959, Princeton N.J.

Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's grey-green cloth boards titled in gilt to spine. 304pp. Light scuffing and rubbing to extremities, sunning to the spine with some dulling of the gilt, minor bumping to spine ends, a very good copy. Internally clean, lengthy gift inscription to front flyleaf where the initials LSD are given several new definitions: "Lewd, Sexy, and Devil May Care" being a catchy example. Illustrated throughout, with folding chart. An early attempt to analyse and discuss the effects upon, and potential to treat, a case group of psychiatric patients utilising LSD as a method of accessing their subconscious, to facilitate understanding of their behavior. Essentially an extended question and answer session between a distinguished group of medical authorities ranging from Paul Hoch of Columbia's Dept. of Psychiatry, Gregory Bateson of the VA, a number of specialists in addiction and recovery, Cecilia Jett-Jackson of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (who at least partially sponsored the conference), and a number of others. Details are given of treatments and results, additional experiments upon lab animals, a 300 item list of patient responses at various stages of treatment whilst under the influence of the drug, and a number of conclusions both positive and negative that the conference reached. Dr. Harold Abramson, now known to have been a part of the CIA's "MK Ultra" program researching potential military applications for hallucinogenics, went on the edit a 1967 study leading on from this one, entitled "The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism.".…