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Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus

By Erika , Dyck

Book information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Year
2008
ISBN
0801889944, 9780801889943, 2007049668, 9781421400754
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3086212 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-01-04 17:24:53

Description

LSD's short but colorful history in North America carries with it the distinct cachet of counterculture and government experimentation. The truth about this mind-altering chemical cocktail is far more complex—and less controversial—than generally believed. Psychedelic Psychiatry is the tale of medical researchers working to understand LSD’s therapeutic properties just as escalating anxieties about drug abuse in modern society laid the groundwork for the end of experimentation at the edge of psychopharmacology. Historian Erika Dyck deftly recasts our understanding of LSD to show it as an experimental substance, a medical treatment, and a tool for exploring psychotic perspectives—as well as a recreational drug

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