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9780801889943 Academic Inspection Copy

Psychedelic Psychiatry

LSD from Clinic to Campus
  • ISBN-13: 9780801889943
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Erika Dyck
  • Price: AUD $89.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2008
  • Format: Hardback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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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. She recounts the inside story of the early days of LSD research in small-town, prairie Canada, when Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer claimed incredible advances in treating alcoholism, understanding schizophrenia and other psychoses, and achieving empathy with their patients. In relating the drug's short, strange trip, Dyck explains how concerns about countercultural trends led to the criminalization of LSD and other so-called psychedelic drugs - concordantly opening the way for an explosion in legal prescription pharmaceuticals - and points to the recent re-emergence of sanctioned psychotropic research among psychiatric practitioners. This challenge to the prevailing wisdom behind drug regulation and addiction therapy provides a historical corrective to our perception of LSD's medical efficacy.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Psychedelic Pioneers2. Simulating Psychoses3. Highs and Lows4. Keeping Tabs on Science and Spirituality5. Acid Panic6. ""The Perfect Contraband""ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

""Contributes mightily to our understanding of prairie culture and offers a much needed look into an ethically informed drug therapy that contributed to the struggle for universal healthcare advanced by Tommy Douglas and the CCF.""

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