Spring Grove Hospital

Spring Grove Hospital, 33 Stafford collection, 15 Stafford, Peter, 44 Stark, Ron, 87 Steinberg, Saul, 87 Steindl-Rast, David, 84 stereoisomers, 66 Stevens, Jay, 60 stimulant properties, 41 Stolaroff, Myron, 15,20 Storming Heaven LSD and the American Dream, 60 Stormy Search for the Self, 29 stress reduction, 68,71,76,81 striychnine, 50 strippers, 62 Sudafed, 66 suicide, 76,78,82 Sunshine acid, 87 sweating, 69 synapses, 48 synergies, 48,86 synthesis of MDMA, 86 synthetic psychedelics, 44,50 Syrian rue, 43... 

The most enraptured "acid heads are aware that LSD is not—and never can be—a panacea, a solution to all of this planet s problems. This most powerful psychoactive compound hasn t been demonstrated to keep us from aging or to reverse the course of fatal diseases. However, it does without doubt offer important benefits for people confronted with terminal illness. This is an area in which research, particularly at the Veterans Hospital in L.A., the Menninger Clinic in Topeka and Spring Grove Hospital near Baltimore, has impressed skeptics. 

DPT has not been very widely used to date, but those who have tried it seem to agree that it does produce psychedelic or "peak experiences. Much of its application in psychotherapy has taken place in Europe, under the supervision of such specialists as Dr. Hanscarl Leuner, who has just published a book in German on psycholytic therapy. Initial reports in the U.S. have come from the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, which used this drug in conjunction with therapy at Spring Grove Hospital near Baltimore. 

Following this, our researches were aimed at improving the quality and quantity of psychedelic reactions. Within the past ten years, major studies, under the direction of Dr. Ross MacLean, Hollywood Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia, and under the direction of Dr. S. Unger at Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, have added materially to our knowledge of the effect of psychedelic therapy on alcoholism. 

LSD was the CBS documentary, narrated by Charles Kuralt, on the psychotherapeutic sessions at the Spring Grove (Maryland) State Hospital. That was very good. But, also, that was... 

Kurland, A. A., Unger, S., and Shaffer, J. "The Psychedelic Procedure in the Treatment of the Alcoholic Patient A Research Program at the Spring Grove State Hospital." In Abramson, H. A. (ed.) The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy and Alcoholism. Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill, 1957, pp. 496-503. 

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