Shroom
Research & scholarshipThe revival
The standard history, and the one that checks the field's favourite stories. Start here.
Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus
Research & scholarshipThe revivalHistory, culture & policy
What it is
Historian Erika Dyck reconstructs the LSD research that Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer ran in Saskatchewan across the 1950s and 1960s, working from hospital records and from interviews with clinicians and former patients. Dyck's compound is LSD. What earns the book its place is the institutional story: it documents how psychedelic treatment was studied, funded and then abandoned inside a public health system, which is the nearest thing the literature holds to a precedent for the programmes now being licensed.
The record
- Author
- Erika Dyck
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN
- 9780801889943
- Kind
- Research & scholarship
- Subject
- History, culture & policy
- Era
- The revival
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