The Psilocybin Connection
Research & scholarshipThe clinical era
Khamsehzadeh ties mushrooms to mind and human development. Wide-ranging.
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Research & scholarshipThe clinical eraHistory, culture & policy
What it is
A scholarly history of self-experimentation with mind-altering drugs and how those accounts shaped psychology, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Historian Mike Jay traces a tradition running from Freud's experiments with cocaine and William James's nitrous-oxide epiphany through the early twentieth century, when drug-taking shifted from a research method to a social problem and self-experimentation faded. Published by Yale University Press, the book situates today's psychedelic-science revival in a much longer intellectual lineage and reads as cultural-intellectual history rather than clinical evidence.
The record
- Author
- Mike Jay
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300257946
- Kind
- Research & scholarship
- Subject
- History, culture & policy
- Era
- The clinical era
- Links checked
- 31 Jul 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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