Expérimentations des psychodysleptiques à Sainte-Anne dans les années 1960

The history of neuroleptics is only the emerging part of an iceberg of research, the birth of Psychopharmacology in France, several episodes of which are less known or forgotten. In this article, the author describes the experiments of psychodysleptics (mescaline, LSD25 and psilocybin), from 1950 to 1967, at Hôpital Sainte-Anne in the Department of Psychiatry University of Jean-Delay. These experiments were intended as “clinical trials” aimed at psychological and psychotherapeutic research. This article refers to a period in the history of psychiatry, between the disappearance of classical medical self-experimentation and the birth of Psychopharmacology, between the publication of the Nuremberg Code (1948) and the voting of the law of 31, December 1970, on Addictions.