If you are studying Psychology and it is high time to start writing your MA dissertation, we are really happy for you. MA dissertation means that you are finishing
your higher education and very soon you are going to be a Master of Psychology.
 
You know that MA dissertation is serious and hard work. You should present deep research on a catching and an actual problem. This is why we suggest you to write your MA dissertation on LSD and its effects on human psychology.
 
To help you a bit with your MA dissertation, we can give you some information on LSD.

• LSD stands for Lysergic acid diethylamide. It is a kind of psychedelic drugs and it is synthesized from lysergic acid. In your MA dissertation you can tell that this acid is obtained from ergot, microscopical fungi that parasitizes on the cereals like wheat. Nowadays, LSD is considered to be the most famous psychedelic and is used as a recreational drug. It is also used for various transcendental practices, such as meditation, psychonautics and psychedelic psychotherapy, which is illegal today, but was officially permitted in the past.
• In your MA dissertation you can tell that LSD is very sensitive to ultraviolet light and oxygen. But if it is stored in the places without light and moisture, it can preserve its properties for many years. In its pure form LSD is colorless; it does not have smell and tastes a little bitter. Usually, LSD is used orally with the help of a small piece of paper (“stamp”) that is soaked with a substance - with a sugar cube or gelatin. However, in its liquid form, it can be used intramuscularly and intravenously.
• Your MA dissertation should definitely contain a chapter devoted to the history of LSD. For the first time it was found in 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. It should be mentioned that Hofmann did not know at first about the properties of LSD. In your MA dissertation you can tell that the effect of LSD on the human organism was discovered by Hofmann in the result of his personal experience.
• This experience was called Bicycle Day that you can also describe in your MA dissertation. Once Hofmann tried LSD and went home by bicycle. It seemed to him that he was driving very slowly, but in reality he was driving at a rather high speed. When he came home, he experienced various hallucinations. It seemed to him that a demon caught him, that his neighbor was a witch and the furniture in his house could hurt him. After that his anxious feelings changed to more pleasant. He saw colorful images in the form of the circles and spirals. The sound of a passing car turned into a visual image. In the morning he felt o.k. but a bit tired. His sensory perceptibility was strengthened and the food seemed extremely tasty to him.
• You can tell in your MA dissertation that LSD was thought to cure schizophrenia and other mental disorders. Some scientists thought that the nature of psychedelic and schizophrenic psychosis is identical. However, this fact was disproved. Still, there are cases (that can be studied separately in your MA dissertation) of using LSD by CIA at the times of the Cold War for interrogation and mind control. However, the usage of LSD has gone out of control and became wide-spread among young people in the 1960-s. That is why LSD became illegal.

• If you are writing your MA dissertation on Psychology, you have to tell about the psychological effects of LSD that are called “trip”. Actually, everybody has different experiences that depend on many factors. Among these factors are: your previous psychedelic experience, your inner state of psyche, current situation and external conditions and so on. Yet, there are some general psychological effects that you can describe in your MA dissertation. These are:
  • Reinforced perception of the colors
  • People can see the floor, the walls or ceiling moving or some sophisticated colorful patterns that are moving on these surfaces.
  • Someone experiences depersonalization and strong inner worries that can be described as rebirth or experiencing your own death.
• In your MA dissertation you can mention that despite the general negative attitude to LSD, some scientists regard it to be very useful for psychotherapy. Because of its special influence on the subconsciousness, a lot of disorders that come from our subconsciousness can be treated. For instance, in your MA dissertation you can tell that LSD is considered to be helpful for treating alcoholism. Your MA dissertation can also mention that LSD arouses such a psyche state when a positive self-appraisal takes place and a person can refuse from egoistical points of view. Still, your MA dissertation should emphasize that the positive effects of LSD can be observed only after using it in small doses.
• It is necessary to tell about the negative and even dangerous effects of LSD in your MA dissertation. LSD has temporal effects, but they stir up strong and extremely serious psyche changes. A person cannot fully realize what is going on or what he/she is doing. That is why it can be really hazardous to drive a car or do any other activities that require your critical decisions. What is more, LSD can arouse some latent psychological disorders. It is not recommended for people who are emotionally unstable. All the feelings, both positive and negative, can increase manifold that can cause a state very close to catharsis.

So, I think this topic can be really interesting for your MA dissertation. Perhaps you will be able to make some other significant discoveries of the effects of LSD on human psyche.
 
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