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by  Abram Hoffer MD PhD, Humphry Fortescue Osmond, Thaddeus Eugene Weckowicz, Linus Pauling, Andrew Saul

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THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF CLINICAL
PSYCHIATRY
Publication Number 402
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THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF
CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
By
A. HOFFER, M.D.
Psychiatric Research Division
Department of Public Health
University Hospital
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
And
HUMPHRY OSMOND, M.R.C.S., D.P.M.
Depariment of Public Health
Psychiatric Research Division
Saskatchewan Hospital
Weyburn, Saskatchewan
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Our Living Chemistry Series was conceived by Editor and
Publisher to advance our newer knowledge of chemical medicine
in the cause of clinical practice. The interdependence of chemistry
and medicine is so great that physicians are turning to chemistry,
and chemists to medicine in order to understand the underlying
basis of life processes in health and disease. Once chemical truths,
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human disorders.
Dr. Hoffer and Dr. Osmond of Saskatchewan reveal clinical
psychiatry in the light of chemical hypotheses. The inferences
based on newer clinical and chemical knowledge, correlate estab-
lished facts, integrate hybrid fields and perceive the oneness of
mind and body. Mental disorders become the specific symbols in
consciousness of the automatic changes in the organism. Anxiety
is attributed to hormone imbalance; depression, to epinephrine
insufficiency; model psychoses and psychedelic experiences, to psy-
‘chotomimetic compounds; schizophrenia, to taraxein formation;
all based on experimental studies of hormonal and drug metab-
olism, and its neural control through the hypothalamus, and indi-
rectly other centers of the brain. The authors employ many of the
newer techniques and especially the most common instrument of all
reasoned experimental science—the balanced alternation of guid-
ing hypothesis and experimental test.
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