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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- Title
- Expanding Mindscapes
- Subtitle
- A Global History of Psychedelics
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Author(s)
- Chris Elcock, Erika Dyck
- Published
- 2023-11-21
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0262546930
- ISBN-13
- 9780262376891
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
1: Nectar of the Blue Goddess: A Living Tradition of Soma Consumption in West Bengal, India 2: Mescaline, between Psychopathology and Phenomenology: Sartre and Experimentation in 1930s France 3: Women, Mental Illness, and Psychedelic Therapy in Postwar France 4: Milan Hausner, the Sadská Clinic, and The Fate of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia 5: Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map 6: Early Experimental LSD Cultures in the Clinic 7: From Rubber Adulterant to Ceremonial Psychedelic: Voacanga africana in the Transnational Imagination, 1894–2018 8: From Bwiti to Ibogaine and Back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe iboga 9: Psychotropic Drugs from and in the Fields: Rural Roots and Collective Effects of LSD 10: The First Applications of LSD-25 in South America (1954–1959) 11: “I Am a Scientist!” Roger Heim’s Interdisciplinary and Transnational Research on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms (and the Problem of Divination) 12: Beatitude, Dread, and Mother-Blaming: The Origins of Clinical Theology, from India to England and Canada 13: Psychedelics, Political Radicalism, and Transnational Acid-Anarchism in the 1970s 14: “Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness 15: From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Center: LSD in the Netherlands 16: Among Doctors, Artists, and Police: The History of LSD in Brazil 17: Psychedelics in Israel: A Brief History 18: Did the Master’s Tools Dismantle the Master’s House? Anti-Psychiatry, Robin Farquharson, and Acid Anarchism 19: Becoming Modern in China with an Indigenous Amazonian Psychedelic Brew 20: Tripping in Karachi: Exploring the Intersection of Gender and Its Fluidity through Psychedelic Substances
