| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
vii, 512 pages : illustrations, map. ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 482-501. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Introduction -- Psychedelics, technology, psychedelics / Bernard S. Aaronson and Humphry Osmond -- pt. 2. Nature of the experience -- Mescaline: On being mad / Humphry Osmond -- Mescaline: Experience and reflections / E. Robert Sinnett -- Psilocybin: an adventure in psilocybin in a prison setting / Jonathan Clark -- LSD: what I deserved / Bernard S. Aaronson -- LSD: who am I, and so what if I am? / Jerry Richardson -- Yage: yage in the valley of fire / Peter Stafford -- pt. 3. Anthropological considerations -- Peyote night / Humphry Osmond -- Report of the Mescaline experience of crashing thunder / Paul Radin -- Mushrooms and the mind / Ralph Metzner -- Some anthropological aspects of yage / Jeffrey Linzer -- Marijuana in Morocco / Tod Mikuriya -- pt. 4. Effects of psychedelics on religion and religious expenience -- Psychedelics and religious experience / Alan Watts -- Drugs and Mysticism / Walter N. Pahnke -- The church of awakening / John W. Aiken -- The psychedelics and religion / Walter Houston Clark -- pt. 5. Psychedelic effects on mental functioning -- Central nervous effects of LSD-25 / Werner P. Koella -- The effects of psychedelic experience on language functioning / Stanley Krippner -- Selective enhancement of specific capacities through psychedelic training / Willis W. Harman and James Fadiman -- Psychedelic states and schizophrenia / Robert E. Mogar -- pt. 6. Non-drug analogues to the psychedelic state -- Some Hypnotic analogues to the psychedelic state / Bernard S. Aaronson -- Implications of experimentally induced contemplative meditation / Arthur J. Deikman -- pt. 7. Therapeutic applications -- Toward an individual Psychedelic psychotherapy / Robert E. L. Masters and Jean Houston -- The psychedelics and group therapy / Duncan Blewett -- Treatment of alcoholism with psychedelic therapy / Abram Hoffer -- A concept of death / Eric C. Kast -- LSD and architectural design / Kiyo Izumi -- pt. 8. Sociology of psychedelics in the current scene -- LSD and the Press / William Braden -- The illicit LSD group-some prelimainary observations / Frances E. Cheek, Stephend Newell, and Mary Sarett -- From data collection to pattern recognition: the sociology of the now -- Ira Einhorn -- pt. 9. Conclusion -- Psychedelics and the future / Humphry Osmond and Bernard Aaronson -- pt. 10. Special sections -- Contributors -- Bibiliography -- Index |
| Subject |
Hallucinogenic drugs.
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Hallucinogenic drugs. |
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Hallucinogènes. |
| Added Author |
Osmond, Humphry.
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