ABSTRACT
Here is a situation where an experiential risk paid off. I have never seen the visual world in quite the same way since. One could say that the intervention here was primarily cognitive—and I'm no snob about that— but I would argue that it was equally important that I joined the patient in his isolated perceptual world as a companion.
"Trip" first came out in the Winter 1995 issue of Voices; it was reprinted, with a commentary by the biological psychiatrist Ronald Pies, in April 1998's Psychiatric Times, subtitled with the new nomenclature for the problem: "Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder." Pies' scientific observations were greatly appreciated, but seemed too specialized to include in this version.
