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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.
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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.
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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personality disorder gave rise to a crisis of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, and how that now-debunked diagnosis has been replaced by a new one: dissociative identity disorder.