Psychotropes
April 23, 2018
Christian Sueur
3 citations
L’utilisation thérapeutique des substances psychédéliques a été concomitante de la découverte du LSD et de la Mescaline après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ces utilisations thérapeutiques concernaient, à l’origine, essentiellement « l’accompagnement » des psychothérapies (thérapies psycholytiques), le traitement des addictions (alcool, puis opiacés) et, du fait de leurs capacités anxiolytiques et...
Oxford University Press eBooks
April 5, 2018
Michael Lifshitz, Eli Oda Sheiner, Laurence J. Kirmayer
22 citations
This chapter explores psychedelics as catalysts of spontaneous thought. Classic serotonergic psychedelics such as psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca can induce potent alterations in cognition and perception. The chapter reviews research on these substances through the lens of cultural neurophenomenology, which aims to trace how neurobiology and sociocultural factors interact to shape experience....
March 29, 2018
Ian McCabe
The correspondence between Bill Wilson and Carl Jung dates back to 1945. This was made possible through Margarita Luttichau who acted as an intermediary between both men. She was a student of Carl Jung and was also a protege of Bill Wilson. Frank McLynn, an astute biographer of Jung&s;s work, wrote that the only benefit Jung saw in lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was that it could introduce...
Oxford Scholarship Online
March 22, 2018
Wayne Glausser
This final chapter compares the Catholic sacrament of extreme unction with modern experiments in psychedelic therapy for the dying. Extreme unction has an unusual history within Christianity: Catholics embrace it as a last, crucial fortification of the soul that prepares someone for heaven, but Protestants, going back to Calvin, view it as a fraudulent mystification. Secular scientists have...
Neuropharmacology
February 21, 2018
Sean J Belouin, Jack E Henningfield
189 citations
The purpose of this commentary is to provide an introduction to this special issue of Neuropharmacology with a historical perspective of psychedelic drug research, their use in psychiatric disorders, research-restricting regulatory controls, and their recent emergence as potential breakthrough therapies for several brain-related disorders. It begins with the discovery of lysergic acid...
Anesthesiology
February 14, 2018
David B. Waisel
Oh Excellent Air Bag presents a curated collection of 12 scientific and popular works about nitrous oxide, spanning 1799 to 1920. Voyeuristic readers will enjoy reading the frequently explicit experiences of inhaling nobles. Readers who prefer a coherent history with a focus on characters, causes, and effects may be less satisfied. That reader will savor the historian Mike Jay’s engaging...
Third World Quarterly
February 1, 2018
Maziyar Ghiabi
32 citations
Few commodities are as global as drugs. Cannabis, opium, heroin, amphetamines, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), khat, psychedelic cacti and mushrooms as well as an interminable list of other natural or synthesised substances travel and are consumed around the globe for all possible reasons. Human migration, trade, cultural trends, medical practice, political repression: together they...
Journal of Addictive Diseases
2018
Mathias B. Forrester
The seeds of Argyreia nervosa (Hawaiian baby woodrose) contain lysergamide or lysergic acid amine, an analog for lysergic acid diethylamide. Twenty-nine Argyreia nervosa exposures reported to Texas poison centers during 2000-2018 were identified. Seventy-nine percent of the patients were male; the mean age was 24 years (range 16-53 years). The exposure route was 97% ingestion and 3% inhalation....
Body Politics
2018
Christof Beyer
English abstract: First tested und used for therapeutic purposes in psychiatry, LSD entered the sub- und counter-cultural field of the beatnik and hippie movement in the 1950s and 1960s as a chemical promise of individual liberation from societal restrictions. In this process, “psychedelic” movies emerged as a new genre, picking up narratives of the substance-induced freeing of the mind and...
Bulletin of the history of medicine
2018
Ian Dowbiggin
Reviewed by: Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada by Erika Dyck, Alex Deighton Ian Dowbiggin Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton. Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. xiv + 321 pp. Ill. $31.95 (978–0–88755–795–8). On December 29, 1921, a...