Tag: France

Culture
Vincent Verroust
February 14, 2024

“I am a scientist!” Roger Heim’s interdisciplinary and transnational research on hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the problem of divination)

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and...

Women
Zoë Dubus, Ph.D.
October 25, 2023

Women, Mental Illness and Psychedelic Therapy in Postwar France

By examining archival documents that highlight the experiences of women, Zoë Dubus is able to...

Mescaline, Between Psychopathology and Phenomenology: Sartre and Experimentation in 1930s France

Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous bad trip took place in February 1935, but is it accurate to...

Liberté, Égalité et Fraternité? Santo Daime’s Fight for Religious Freedom in France

In France, Santo Daime and other ayahuasca groups and practitioners are accused of illicit drug...