Word: klerman
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Klerman divided the effects caused by psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline into immediate and long-range. Among the immediate effects are changes in the subjects pulse, skin temperature, reflexes, etc., "considerable" [mental] confusion, and an alteration in "the person's capacity to perceive the world...
...main dangers of the immediate effects, according to Klerman are that the subject could hurt himself by for example misjudging distances, and that the physiological changes induced by the drugs might accentuate a chronic illness, like a liver condition...
...Klerman Identified the persistence of a psychotic or schizophrenic state is a harmful long-range effect that could result from taking the drugs...
...Klerman said there was nothing new in the claim of Alpert and Leary that the experience of taking psilocybin creates a setting in which a person can see himself in a new light, and that, as a consequence, the drug can have a lasting effect on maturation, creativity or personality orientation...
...Klerman admitted that "some of their findings have been of interest," but stated that "there have been no adequately controlled and systematic studies of "consciousness-expanding drugs] indicating benefits to maturation and consciousness-expansion...