Treatment of Neuroses

See also Shivitti by Ka-tzetnik (should be mandatory reading in all high schools). 

LSD has been found to be effective (50 - 66% recovery) in the treatment of obsessional compulsive disorder (Solursh 1966 Sandison 1954 1956) 

LSD has been used on schizophrenic with a recovery rate of 80% (Perrilo 1963) 

Neuroses - 55% recovery rate. We have reason to be satisfied with lysergic acid diethylamide as an aid to treatment, and in many cases the results are so dramatic as to leave one in no doubt as to the value of this remarkable drug, R.A. Sandison (1956). 

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Ling, T. M., and J. Buckman. 1963. Lysergic Acid (LSD-25) Ritalin in the Treatment of Neuroses. Sidcup, Kent Lombarde Press. 

This group comprises preparations used in the treatment of neuroses and psychosomatic disorders associated with anxiety and tension. 

The treatment of mental disease before 1950, such as it was, consisted mainly of the administration of CNS depressants—the barbiturates or the bromides. The drugs did little more than depress the agitated psychotic into a condition of stupor, which made it difficult for the patient to function it did nothing to alter the prognosis of the disease. Psychoanalysis was of some value in the treatment of neuroses. 

The most prominent pharmacologic activity exhibited by phenothiazines bearing the 1,3-propyldiamine side chain is, of course, that of a neuroleptic agent. Treatment of psychoses and severe neuroses constitutes the largest single use of these so-called... 

Ilaria RL, Thornby JI and Fann WE (1981). Nabilone, a cannabinoid derivative, in the treatment of anxiety neuroses. Current Therapeutic Research, 29, 943-949. 

Fowler s solution was recommended for other aliments, such as asthma and common neuroses. It was also found to be successful in the treatment of malaria, and was used to destroy nerves in teeth in dentistry. It was still being described for such purposes in a textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics pubhshed in 1921. Arsenic was also used in cosmetics because it was beheved to improve the complexion, imparting to it a milk rose appearance. 

The first half of the 20th century brought further attempts to use drugs and other therapies to treat mental illness. For example, tests were conducted on the effectiveness of giving amphetamines to depressed and narcoleptic patients, and carbon dioxide inhalation procedures were used in the treatment of illnesses referred to as psychoses and neuroses. Also used in the treatment of psychoses were antihistamines, insulin shock, and psychosurgery. Electroshock therapy was used to treat severe depression (a procedure still used today). Finally, in 1949 an Australian physician named John Cade discovered that the alkali metal lithuim successfully moderated manic conditions, although concerns about toxic reactions to it prevented its approval for use in the United States until 1970. Lithium remains a mainstay in the treatment of bipolar illnesses today. 

The early 1950s began the modem era of the treatment of anxieties and neuroses. We moved from the use of simple daytime sedation with dmgs that were essentially hypnotics, albeit at much lower subhypnotic doses, to compounds that became known as minor tranquilizers—the various polyol carbamates. In addition, the development of major tranquilizers that, for the first time in history, had more than just a custodial impact on schizophrenic-psychotic patients occurred simultaneously. These initial anxiolytics, with meprobamate now considered the prototype, were the first drags whose pharmacologic profile included more than just CNS depression. 

Tranquilizers are drugs essentially used in the management and, treatment of psychoses and neuroses. They specifically exert their action on the lower brain areas to produce emotional calmness and relaxation without appreciable hypnosis sedation euphoria or motor impairment. In addition many of these drugs also display clinically beneficial actions, for instance skeletal muscle relaxants, antihypertensive, antiemetic and antiepileptic properties. 

Types of conditions repeatedly stated to respond favorably to treatment with psychedelics include chronic alcoholism, criminal psychopathy, sexual deviations and neuroses, depressive states (exclusive of endogenous depression), phobias, anxiety neuroses, compulsive syndromes, and puberty neuroses. In addition, psychedelics have been used with autistic children, to make them more responsive and to improve behavior and attitudes with terminal cancer patients, to ease both the physical pain and the anguish of dying and with... 

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