Der Meskalinrausch
| Author | Kurt Beringer |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Subject | Mescaline; Psychedelic drugs |
Publication date | 1927 |
| Website | https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/bKIyn-JitfIC |
Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise, also known as Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation, is a German monograph about the psychedelic drug mescaline by German neurologist and psychiatrist Kurt Beringer that was published in 1927.[1][2][3]
Mescaline became commercially available in 1920 following its first synthesis in 1919.[1][2] In 1921, Beringer started clinical studies of mescaline, administered it to more than 60 people, mostly doctors and medical students at his clinic, and studied its psychological effects, especially its visuals.[1][2] He published his findings in Der Meskalinrausch in 1927.[1][2]
Beringer, in his monograph and in other publications, was the first to comment on similarities between mescaline intoxication and schizophrenia symptoms, describing the effects of mescaline as "experimental psychosis".[4][5]
After its publication, Heinrich Klüver used Beringer's data to conduct the first phenomenological analysis of psychedelic effects.[1][3] He published his findings in his own monograph Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects in 1928.[1][3]
See also
- List of psychedelic literature
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jay, Mike (2019). "100 years of mescaline". Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly. 150 (5): 957–959. doi:10.1007/s00706-019-02425-3. ISSN 0026-9247.
- 1 2 3 4 Jay, Mike (18 June 2019). Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23107-6.
- 1 2 3 McKenna, Terence (1999). "[Chapter 14:] A Brief History of Psychedelics". Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution (PDF). Rider. pp. 223–245. ISBN 978-0-7126-7038-8.
- ↑ Halberstadt AL, Geyer MA (November 2013). "Serotonergic hallucinogens as translational models relevant to schizophrenia". Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 16 (10): 2165–2180. doi:10.1017/S1461145713000722. PMC 3928979. PMID 23942028.
- ↑ Beringer, Kurt (1923). "Experimentelle psychosen durch mescalin. Vortrag, gehalten auf der südwestdeutschen psychiaterversammlung in Erlangen 1922". Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie (in German). 84 (1): 426–433. doi:10.1007/BF02896052. ISSN 0303-4194.