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Author:   Erika Dyck ,  Chris Elcock
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Weight:   0.369kg
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9780262546935

ISBN 10:   0262546930
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   21 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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INTRODUCTION 1 Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock I EVALUATING EVIDENCE/EXPERIENCE 21 1 NECTAR OF THE BLUE GODDESS: A LIVING TRADITION OF SOMA CONSUMPTION IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA 23 Ian A. Baker 2 MESCALINE, BETWEEN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY: SARTRE AND EXPERIMENTATION IN 1930s FRANCE 51 Gautier Dassonneville 3 WOMEN, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY IN POSTWAR FRANCE 75 Zoë Dubus 4 MILAN HAUSNER, THE SADSKÁ CLINIC, AND THE FATE OF LSD PSYCHOTHERAPY IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA 99 Ross Crockford 5 REMEMBERING TO FORGET: HOW THE UK DISAPPEARED FROM THE PSYCHEDELIC MAP 121 Wendy Kline 6 EARLY EXPERIMENTAL LSD CULTURES IN THE CLINIC 141 Magaly Tornay II GLOBAL NETWORKS OF PSYCHEDELIC KNOWLEDGE 165 7 FROM RUBBER ADULTERANT TO CEREMONIAL PSYCHEDELIC: VOACANGA AFRICANA IN THE TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATION, 1894–2018 167 Timothy Vilgiate 8 FROM BWITI TO IBOGAINE AND BACK: A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF TABERNANTHE IBOGA 189 Julien Bonhomme 9 PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS FROM AND IN THE FIELDS: RURAL ROOTS AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTS OF LSD 215 Beat Bächi 10 THE FIRST APPLICATIONS OF LSD-25 IN SOUTH AMERICA (1954–1959) 239 Hernán Scholten and Gonzalo Salas 11 “I AM A SCIENTIST!” ROGER HEIM’S INTERDISCIPLINARY AND TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH ON HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS (AND THE PROBLEM OF DIVINATION) 261 Vincent Verroust 12 BEATITUDE, DREAD, AND MOTHER-BLAMING: THE ORIGINS OF CLINICAL THEOLOGY, FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND AND CANADA 285 Andrew Jones 13 PSYCHEDELICS, POLITICAL RADICALISM, AND TRANSNATIONAL ACID-ANARCHISM IN THE 1970s 309 Hallam Roffey III PSYCHEDELICS AS CULTURAL PHENOMENA 331 14 “VIDEO IS AS POWERFUL AS LSD”: ELECTRONICS AND PSYCHEDELICS AS TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 333 Peter Sachs Collopy 15 FROM PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS TO MAGICAL CENTER: LSD IN THE NETHERLANDS 357 Stephen Snelders 16 AMONG DOCTORS, ARTISTS, AND POLICE: THE HISTORY OF LSD IN BRAZIL 379 Henrique Carneiro and Júlio Delmanto 17 PSYCHEDELICS IN ISRAEL: A BRIEF HISTORY 399 Ido Hartogsohn and Itamar Zadoff 18 DID THE MASTER’S TOOLS DISMANTLE THE MASTER’S HOUSE? ANTI-PSYCHIATRY, ROBIN FARQUHARSON, AND ACID ANARCHISM 423 Mark Gallagher 19 BECOMING MODERN IN CHINA WITH AN INDIGENOUS AMAZONIAN PSYCHEDELIC BREW 449 Alex K. Gearin 20 TRIPPING IN KARACHI: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND ITS FLUIDITY THROUGH PSYCHEDELIC SUBSTANCES 473 Manal Khan CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF PSYCHEDELIC HISTORY 491 Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock EPILOGUE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELICS 495 Mike Jay Acknowledgments 503 Contributors 505 Index 511

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Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry and Facing Eugenics; coauthor of Managing Madness, Challenging Choices, and The Acid Room; and coeditor of Psychedelic Prophets, A Culture's Catalyst, and Wonder Drug. Erika is also a Board Member of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plants and Associate Director of Chacruna Canada. Chris Elcock is an award-winning independent historian of psychedelics who has authored Psychedelic New York- A History of LSD in the City along with several articles on the history of the American psychedelic movement.

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