Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The use of the word "hallucinogens" to classify LSD and other drugs is common-sensical, vague and sometimes confusing.The classification scheme of Jean Delay, first suggested in 1959, is more clinically precise.In this scheme hallucinogens are classified as psychodysleptics (psycho-dysleptiques) because of their characteristic psychological effects: disturbance of mental activity and the engendering of distortions in a person's judgement of reality.See Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker, Methodes chimiotherapiques en psychiatrie: les nouveaux medicaments psychotropes, Paris, Masson, 1961, pp.14-17.In our view, this classification implicitly recognizes the role of cultural definitions of reality as part of the problematic of the drug experience, as will be elaborated below.Despite this precision we have chosen to use the term "hallucinogen" for literary reasons.
Source: Medical History
Authors: Stephen Snelders, Charles Kaplan
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2152697141