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Rediscovering Egypt's Forgotten Psychedelic Psychiatry

Between East and West: Rediscovering Egypt’s Forgotten Psychedelic Psychiatry (1950s-1970s)

A forgotten cache of LSD-25 in Cairo reveals Egypt’s overlooked role in early psychedelic psychiatry....
psychedelic therapy in Argentina

The Golden Decade of Psychedelic Therapy in Argentina

Susana Garcia, an Argentinian woman, was treated for severe anorexia in the 1950s using LSD...
Robin Farquharson and acid anarchism

Did The Master’s Tools Dismantle the Master’s House?: Anti-Psychiatry, Robin Farquharson and Acid Anarchism

Robin Farquharson is a transitional figure through whom it is possible to explore the transformation...
From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Centre: LSD in the Netherlands

From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Centre: LSD in the Netherlands

In this article, Stephen Snelders explores a watershed in the diffusion of LSD in the...
Electronics and Psychedelics as technologies of consciousness

“Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness

The histories of electronics and psychedelics are intertwined as Peter Sachs Collopy shows in this...
LSD and the Origins of Clinical Theology, from India to England and Canada

Beatitude, Dread, and Mother-Blaming: LSD and the Origins of Clinical Theology, from India to England and Canada

Andrew Jones explores the connection between LSD and the origins of clinical theology illuminating the...
LSD in South America

The First Applications of LSD-25 in South America (1954-1959)

The first LSD experiments in South America in the 1950s were carried out similarly to...
LSD can be connected to the history of ergot

Psychotropic Drugs from and in the Fields. Rural Roots and Collective Effects of LSD

Ergot is a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and serves as the raw material...
Powick Psychiatric Hospital was at the center of lsd-assisted therapy discourse for a brief time.

Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map

Between 1952 and 1964, the UK's Powick Psychiatric Hospital served as a center of LSD-assisted...
Early Experimental LSD Cultures in the Clinic

Early Experimental LSD Cultures in the Clinic

Magaly Tornay looks at early practices of meaning-making around LSD in the clinic, a crucial...
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