The assemblage point shift is similar in principle to electroshock therapy. Both therapies can be used to address depression, mania, schizophrenia, and catatonia. However, shifting the assemblage point is noninvasive compared to electroshock. It complements Hoffer''s http://holisticschizophrenia.blogspot.com/2009/05/shamans-blow.html

 I was twenty when I first got to know that I had a paranoid psychoses. This was in 1987. For the next 12 years I got the usual treatment with antipsychotics such as clozapine and later on seroquel. During these twelve years, I felt more or less comfortable with my medication however being fairly unstable in terms of recovery.

In the 1950s, Dr. Abram Hoffer, together with Dr. Humphrey Osmond, successfully treated hundreds of schizophrenic patients at the Saskatchewan Hospital, with supplements aimed at correcting the body’s biochemical imbalances, a treatment approach later termed “orthomolecular medicine.”