Word: ziporyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of cosmic hypochondria, a feeling of universal futility. This trend seems to be reflected in clinical experience. The old compulsion neuroses and guilt feelings, many psychologists report, are being replaced by diffuse anxiety neuroses and a vague sense of meaninglessness. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, the new fashion in popular psychology "reflects a greater interest in social interrelationships-it's more outward in its direction. All the introspective talk of castration anxiety, latent homosexuality or oral emphasis has been replaced by sibling rivalry, alienation, dependency, powerlessness in society, fear of freedom. The new accent...
Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, who has administered LSD to some 50 patients since 1960-besides taking it himself, along with his attorney wife-sees LSD's laying bare of the personality in purely diagnostic terms. "LSD is, if you like, a psychiatric X ray," he says. "With LSD you have no greater vision of the universe than you did before. It no more expands your consciousness than an X ray expands your lungs when you see them on the screen. All you do is get a better look...
Some researchers, while sneering along with Dr. Ziporyn at the view of LSD as instant mysticism, feel that the psychedelic drugs may eventually do more than merely give the psychiatrist a better look. There is evidence that it may be effective in rehabilitating alcoholics and narcotics addicts. Several doctors, among them Eric Kast of the Chicago Medical School, have reported LSD useful in relieving both the pain and anxiety of dying patients. Kast theorizes that the dissolution of anticipation, the concentration on the present moment, which may be beneficial to the dying, is also what appeals to some...