Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Scienceby Benjamin Breen, New York: Grand Central Publishing. 2024. pp. 369. $3000 (cloth). ISBN 9781538722374
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences December 25, 2024 Rob Schraff
A kaleidoscopic narrative of the history of not only psychedelic science, but also an extraordinary network of behavioral scientists cultivated by Margaret Mead that had a profound impact on the history of the 20th century, Benjamin Breen's Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychiatric Science will prove deeply fascinating to historians, behavioral...