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Standards Index: Psychological Science Domain: Standard 1: Perspectives on Treatment

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1.1: Explain how psychological treatments have changed over time and among cultures.

Hallucinogens as Treatment?

Students will learn how LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was studied for potential therapeutic uses until it was banned in 1970, and how researchers today are pioneering a new role for hallucinogens within clinical settings.

Psychology: Dissociative Disorder

Students will learn how a best-selling book and a popular movie about multiple personality disorder gave rise to a crisis of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, and how that now-debunked diagnosis has been replaced by a new one: dissociative identity disorder.