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.
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.
By:
Erika Dyck,
Chris Elcock
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262546935
ISBN 10: 0262546930
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
