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Useimpia yleisessä käytössä olevia nimitykset – "hallusinogeeni", "psykotomimeetti" ja "psykedeeli" ("mieltä ilmentävä") on käytetty ristikkäin.
The most popular names—hallucinogen, psychotomimetic, and psychedelic ("mind manifesting")—have often been used interchangeably.
"Psykoosia matkivaa" tarkoittava ilmaisu "psykotomimeetti" heijastelee tutkijoiden varhaisia hypoteeseja, joiden mukaan hallusinogeenien vaikutukset vastaavat luonnollisesti ilmenevän skitsofrenian oireita.
The word psychotomimetic, meaning "mimicking psychosis", reflects the hypothesis of early researchers that the effects of psychedelic drugs are similar to naturally occurring symptoms of schizophrenia, though it has since been discovered that some psychedelics resemble endogenous psychoses better than others.
LSD:n keksimisestä seuranneen tutkimuksen määrän kasvun seurauksena syntyi useita uusia käsitteitä laajentamaan aiempaa sanastoa, esimerkiksi "hallusinogeeni", "fanerotyymi", "psykedeeli", "psykotomimeetti", "psykolyytti", "skitsofrenogeeni", "kataleptogeeni", "mystikomimeetti", "psykodyslepti" ja "enteogeeni".
But no sooner had the term been invented, or Lewin complained that the word "does not cover all that I should wish it to convey", and indeed with the proliferation of research following the discovery of LSD came numerous attempts to improve on it, such as hallucinogen, phanerothyme, psychedelic, psychotomimetic, psychogenic, schizophrenogenic, cataleptogenic, mysticomimetic, psychodysleptic, and entheogenic.
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