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Ramón Sarró Burbano and the introduction of the psychedelic paradigm into Spanish psychiatry: between a therapeutic tool and an educational experience

RAMÓN SARRÓ BURBANO AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE PSYCHEDELIC PARADIGM IN SPANISH PSYCHIATRY: BETWEEN THERAPEUTIC TOOL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ramón Sarró played an intermediary role in introducing the psychedelic paradigm into Spanish psychiatry and pioneered the establishment of a Barcelona-based school of psychedelic research.

The study aimed to analyze the intermediary role of Ramón Sarró Burbano, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, in introducing the psychedelic paradigm into Spanish psychiatry, reconstruct the emergence of a Barcelona-based school of psychedelic research, and examine how LSD was understood as a therapeutic, phenomenological, and educational tool in mid-20th-century Spanish psychiatry. Using a historical-conceptual approach, the study combined a review of key scientific and historiographical literature with an analysis of selected historical documents and contemporary publications, placing particular emphasis on reconstructing international networks of psychiatric knowledge. The findings indicate that, after attending Aldous Huxley's LSD symposium at the 1955 APA Congress, Sarró launched one of Spain's first psychedelic research programs. In a 1956 interview in Medicina Clínica, he argued that LSD could foster creativity and that firsthand experimentation was an essential component of psychiatrists' training; these ideas later resonated internationally, including in Argentina. Although Sarró did not publish studies specifically on LSD himself, he supervised Carlos Ruiz Ogara's thesis and supported a line of research pursued by Ruiz Ogara, Martí-Tusquets, and González Monclús. Using Delysid supplied by Sandoz, the group conducted 42 observations involving 30 volunteers—students, physicians, and psychiatric patients—to examine LSD's phenomenological, psychodynamic, and therapeutic effects. The research group focused primarily on LSD-induced experimental psychoses, using this model to investigate the phenomenology and mechanisms of severe mental disorders. The study reconstructs the original scientific understanding of LSD before its stigmatization—that is, its role as a tool in clinical practice, phenomenological investigation, and psychiatric training—and situates Spanish psychiatry within the international psychedelic research networks of the mid-20th century.

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