Category: Women

Kin Spruijt: A Psychedelic Nurse in a Dutch Psychiatric Clinic

Since at least the 1840s psychiatrists have administered psychedelics to treat their patients. From the...

The Cost of Omission: Dr. Valentina Wasson and Getting Our Stories Right

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: ambitious, brave, and pioneering white man travels to...

Heroines of Mescaline

In 1905, several women (and one man), detained at a psychiatric institution in Breslau, now...

‘Sorted’ for Es? Women and Ecstasy in 1990s Britain

Growing up in Britain in the mid ‘90s, the name, and image, of Leah Betts...

Nina Graboi, A Forgotten Woman in Psychedelic Lore

November 2012. I have just started my research on the history of LSD and this...

Of Mediums and Mind-Manifestors: Eileen Garrett and Psychedelic Experience

Eileen J. Garrett (1893-1970) is reputed to be the greatest psychic and “trance” medium of...

Acid and Orgasms: Why LSD Failed to Sexually Liberate Women

Was LSD ever a “sex drug” for women? In the 1960s, the answer appeared to...

Women’s Historical Influence on “Set and Setting”

It is striking that the work of Joyce Martin, Margot Cutner, and Betty Eisner is...

An Interview with Mariavittoria Mangini

How does one describe the ways in which a person’s life is touched by psychedelics?...

Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines

Chacruna is proud to host this series of reflections on women in the history of...

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