Tag: LSD

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....

The Golden Decade of Psychedelic Therapy in Argentina

Susana Garcia, an Argentinian woman, was treated for severe anorexia in the 1950s using LSD...

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

In this article, Stephen Snelders explores a watershed in the diffusion of LSD in the...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...