Psychology Today | 29.04.2026 04:14
In the spring of 1965, notes Justin Garson in The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia, published today by St Martin’s Press, several leading researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health set up an experiment with a small colony of squirrel monkeys, then with a slightly larger group of humans. Giving high doses of hallucinogens like LSD to each, they hoped to induce schizophrenia in their subjects, the better to study its underlying mechanism.
