The cerebral field.
+..Krautrock +..synth +..science fiction, crime noir and epic film In Time by Our Solar System + Two Cares Due None by Absolutely Free + Terraform by Xordox It was also in the year 1957 that the idea of the ‘psychic energiser’ was first elucidated by a group of American researchers, including psychiatrist Nathan Kline. Kline, who became an avid evangelist for the use of iproniazid and similar drugs in depressive states (Healy 1997), suggested that a ‘psychic energiser’ was a drug that stimulated the psyche without stimulating the body. In a paper describing the effects of iproniazid in depressed outpatients, Kline and colleagues contrasted ‘psychic energisers’ with ‘general energisers’ by which they meant stimulants, such as amphetamine. According to their theory stimulants effected motor function and arousal as well as psychological state, thus exerting a ‘general rather than a specific action’ (Loomer, Saunders, + Kline 1957, p. 130). The authors went on, ‘it has ...
