Psychiatry: Turning It on with LSD

What kind of person is likely to enjoy a trip on LSD? Only the extravert, Alabama Psychiatrist Patrick H. Linton suggested last week at a regional meeting of the National Association for Men tal Health. Dr. Linton gave equal doses of LSD-25 to 14 mental patients, all men, half of whom were introspective and trying to avoid contact with the outside world, while the other half were outgoing, eager to meet people and to talk about themselves. The results were astonishingly uniform.

The tense, withdrawn subjects said precious little about their LSD experience except to complain of pain, weakness, dizziness...

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