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Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton, and James W. Spark, eds., Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond, Reviewer: Robert Dickins

Robert Dickins

History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals 2019 DOI: 10.3368/hopp.61.3-4.174 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that the Huxley-Osmond letters reveal the collaborative and exploratory nature of early psychedelic research, showing how their friendship shaped the development of psychedelic terminology and therapeutic ideas.

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Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton, and James W. Spark, eds., Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018; 728 pp; 10 b&w images; ISBN: 9780773555068; cloth;