The psychedelic Renaissance : reassessing the role of psychedelic drugs in 21st century psychiatry and society / Dr. Ben Sessa.

  • Sessa, Ben
Date:
2017
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Publication/Creation

London : Muswell Hill Press, 2017.

Physical description

xiv, 387 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

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Edition

Second edition.

Notes

Dated: April 2017.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-369) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Apocalypse now and then -- Chapter 1. Personal reflection -- Chapter 2. The experience and the drugs -- Chapter 3. Early pioneers of the first and second psychedelic eras -- Chapter 4. The prehistory and ancient history of hallucinogens -- Chapter 5. Hippie heydays, ravers and the birth of ecstasy -- Chapter 6. Psychedelic creativity -- Chapter 7. Modern uses of natural plant and fungi psychedelics -- Chapter 8. The psychedelic renaissance part one: movers and shakers -- Chapter 9. The psychedelic renaissance part two: contemporary studies -- Chapter 10. Psychedelics caught in the crossfire of the war on drugs -- Conclusion. Back to the future: psychiatry needs psychedelics, and psychedelics need psychiatry.

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    History of Medicine
    FCJ.PX
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ISBN

  • 1908995254
  • 9781908995254
  • 1908995270
  • 9781908995278