Psychedelic therapy, group

Alcoholics Anonymous, the great self-help group-therapy movement, is the only established treatment for alcoholics. Until much more is known about the personal (biochemical and psychological), familial, and social factors that contribute to alcoholism, so it will remain. Most new therapies are merely adjunctive to AA and will continue to be so until it is shown that they have therapeutic value when used alone. In my view, psychedelic therapy is best used as a preparation for AA. 

When psychedelic therapy is given to alcoholics using methods described in the literature about one-third will remain sober after the therapy is completed, and one-third will be benefitted. If schizophrenics and malvarians [those showing a particularly purplish component of urine] are excluded from LSD therapy the results should be better by about 30 per cent. Thereare no published papers using psychedelic therapy which show it does not help about 50 per cent of the treated group. ... 

The diversity of the approaches to therapeutic use of psychedelics makes the evidence supporting their value for therapy all the more impressive. Individuals and groups of therapists of various persuasions have worked with one or more of an ever-expanding family of psychedelic drugs and with a... 

D. Preparation in group therapy and high dosage (psychedelic) in a supportive group setting. 

Blewett, D. 1970. Thepsychedelics [hr] and group therapy In Aaronson, B. and H. Osmond (Eds.) Psychedelics The Uses and hnpliattions ofHaBicino ic Dru. Doub-lecky/Anchor, Garden City, nJ- pp. 342--357-... 

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