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A Global History of Psychedelics

A Global History of Psychedelics

A Global History of Psychedelics

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

Edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock

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    About Expanding Mindscapes

    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.

    Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century.

    The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits.

    Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

    About Expanding Mindscapes

    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.

    Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century.

    The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits.

    Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

    About Expanding Mindscapes

    The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers.

    Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century.

    The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits.

    Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.

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    Category: Wellness | Psychology

    Paperback | $55.00
    Published by The MIT Press
    Nov 21, 2023 | 532 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262546935

    Category: Wellness | Psychology

    Ebook | $38.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Nov 21, 2023 | 532 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262376891

    Category: Wellness | Psychology

    Ebook | $31.99
    Published by The MIT Press
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    Table Of Contents

    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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