Expanding mindscapes : a global history of psychedelics / edited by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

vii, 520 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock -- I. Evaluating evidence/experience. 1. Nectar of the blue goddess: a living tradition of soma consumption in West Bengal, India / Ian A. Baker -- 2. Mescaline, between psychopathology and phenomenology: Sartre and experimentation in 1930s France / Gautier Dassonneville -- 3. Women, mental illness, and psychedelic therapy in postwar France / Zoë Dubus -- 4. Milan Hausner, the Sadská Clinic, and the fate of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia / Ross Crockford -- 5. Remembering to forget: how the UK disappeared from the psychedelic map / Wendy Kline -- 6. Early experimental LSD cultures in the clinic / Magaly Tornay -- II. Global networks of psychedelic knowledge. 7. From rubber adulterant to ceremonial psychedelic: Voacanga africana in the transnational imagination, 1894-2018 / Timothy Vilgiate -- 8. From Bwiti to ibogaine and back: a transnational history of Tabernanthe iboga / Julien Bonhomme -- 9. Psychotropic drugs from and in the fields: rural roots and collective effects of LSD / Beat Bächi -- 10. The first applications of LSD-25 in South America (1954-1959) / Hernán Scholten and Gonzalo Salas -- 11. "I am a scientist!": Roger Heim's interdisciplinary and transnational research on hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the problem of divination) / Vincent Verroust -- 12. Beatitude, dread, and mother-blaming: the origins of clinical theology, from India to England and Canada / Andrew Jones -- 13. Psychedelics, political radicalism, and transnational acid-anarchism in the 1970s / Hallam Roffey -- III. Psychedelics as cultural phenomena. 14. "Video is as powerful as LSD": electronics and psychedelics as technologies of consciousness / Peter Sachs Collopy -- 15. From psychiatric clinics to magical center: LSD in the Netherlands / Stephen Snelders -- 16. Among doctors, artists, and police: the history of LSD in Brazil / Henrique Carneiro and Júlio Delmanto -- 17. Psychedelics in Israel: a brief history / Ido Hartogsohn and Itamar Zadoff -- 18. Did the master's tools dismantle the master's house?: anti-psychiatry, Robin Farquharson, and acid anarchism / Mark Gallagher -- 19. Becoming modern in China with an indigenous Amazonian psychedelic brew / Alex K. Gearin -- 20. Tripping in Karachi: exploring the intersection of gender and its fluidity through psychedelic substances / Manal Khan -- Conclusion: The future of psychedelic history / Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock -- Epilogue: A glocal history of psychedelics / Mike Jay.