Naranjo, Claudio

Naranjo, Claudio, 69,74,81 Nasmyth, Peter, 71 National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth, 62... 

Naranjo, Claudio. Psychotropic Properties of the Harmala Alkaloids. In Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Dmgs, edited by Donald Efron, Bo Hohnstedt, andNathan S. Kline, 385-391. Public Health Service Publication No. 1645, Washington, D.C., 1967. 

Naranjo, Claudio. 1973. The healing journey, new approaches to consciousness. Ballantine Books, New York, 234 p. 

Lozowick, Lee. The alchemy of transformation foreword by Claudio Naranjo. Prescott (AZ) Hohm P, 1996. xx,164p. ISBN 0-934252-62-9... 

There have been a number of medical explorations. Under the code SKF-5 (and trade name of Amphedoxamine) it was explored as an anorexic agent. It has been found promising in the treatment of psychoneurotic depression. There are several medical reports, and one book (Claudio Naranjo s The Healing Journey), that describe its values in psychotherapy. 

In a study on the effects of Yage on volunteers at the University of Chile, Dr. Claudio Naranjo (1966) found that a number of the experiences were remarkably similar to those reported to Harner (1966) by the Indians of Ecuador and... 

Harlan Reiders Claudio Naranjo Journal of Psychedelic Drugs Jack Call PharmChem Berkeley Bonaparte... 

The Healing Journey New Approaches to Consciousness, 1973 Claudio Naranjo,... 

In discussing MDA and MMDA, psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo points out that a tiny percentage of the population is intensely sensitive to one-ring substituted amphetamines. Such persons may exhibit extreme reactions including sweating and hypertension as sometimes occurs with other amphetamine-like compounds. His recommendation is that an initial experience be of a low dosage. 

Claudio Naranjo suggests how this change in orientation might be... 

Almost all users exhibit dilated pupils. Perhaps 10 percent of users feel transitory nausea, jaw-tightening, sweating or jitteriness, and most register some rise in blood pressure. Claudio Naranjo suggests that "Since individual incompatibility is consistent and bound to dose level, it is possible to identify those susceptible to physical problems... 

Author of The Healing Journey, Claudio Naranjo exchanged LSD for ayahuasca with Amazon medicine men and introduced MDA, MMDA, harmine, harmaline, ibogaine and 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-phenylisopropylamine into the psychotherapeutic literature. 

Psychotherapeutic efficacy has been investigated by Claudio Naranjo and described in The Healing Journey. He comments on forty sessions he conducted with thirty patients using "either ibogaine or total iboga extract. ... 

One of the few published works on MDA is Claudio Naranjo s The Healing Journey (New York Ballantine Books, 1975) it discusses the author s uses of MDA and other hallucinogenic drugs in psychotherapy. 

My students Christie Atkinson-Meyers, Etzel Gardena, David Gabriel, and John Price were especially helpful in suggesting clarifications and expansions of an earlier draft of this work, and my wife, Judy, provided the indispensable support and encouragement (as well as much editorial assistance) needed to create this book. Special thanks are also due to David Daniels, Henry Korman, Claudio Naranjo, Kathy Speeth, and others who taught me much about the Gurdjieff work. 

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