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Women and Psychedelics - Uncovering Invisible Voices: Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar,... Women and Psychedelics - Uncovering Invisible Voices
Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Ibrahim Gabriell, …
R648 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R175 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Locating Health - Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health (Paperback): Erika Dyck, Christopher... Locating Health - Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health (Paperback)
Erika Dyck, Christopher Fletcher
R1,641 Discovery Miles 16 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.

Locating Health - Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health (Hardcover): Erika Dyck, Christopher... Locating Health - Historical and Anthropological Investigations of Place and Health (Hardcover)
Erika Dyck, Christopher Fletcher
R4,275 Discovery Miles 42 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in this collection focus on the dynamic relationship between health and place. Historical and anthropological perspectives are presented - each discipline having a long tradition of engaging with these concepts. The resulting dialogue should produce a new layer of methodology, enhancing both fields.

Psychedelics - A Visual Odyssey: Erika Dyck Psychedelics - A Visual Odyssey
Erika Dyck
R837 R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Save R203 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital (Paperback): Jesse Donaldson, Erika Dyck The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital (Paperback)
Jesse Donaldson, Erika Dyck
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Expanding Mindscapes - A Global History of Psychedelics: Erika Dyck, Chris Elcock Expanding Mindscapes - A Global History of Psychedelics
Erika Dyck, Chris Elcock
R1,494 R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Save R160 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Psychedelic Psychiatry - LSD from Clinic to Campus (Hardcover): Erika Dyck Psychedelic Psychiatry - LSD from Clinic to Campus (Hardcover)
Erika Dyck
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

LSD's short but colorful history in North America carries with it the distinct cachet of counterculture and government experimentation. The truth about this mind-altering chemical cocktail is far more complex -- and less controversial -- than generally believed.

Psychedelic Psychiatry is the tale of medical researchers working to understand LSD's therapeutic properties just as escalating anxieties about drug abuse in modern society laid the groundwork for the end of experimentation at the edge of psychopharmacology. Historian Erika Dyck deftly recasts our understanding of LSD to show it as an experimental substance, a medical treatment, and a tool for exploring psychotic perspectives -- as well as a recreational drug. She recounts the inside story of the early days of LSD research in small-town, prairie Canada, when Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer claimed incredible advances in treating alcoholism, understanding schizophrenia and other psychoses, and achieving empathy with their patients.

In relating the drug's short, strange trip, Dyck explains how concerns about countercultural trends led to the criminalization of LSD and other so-called psychedelic drugs -- concordantly opening the way for an explosion in legal prescription pharmaceuticals -- and points to the recent re-emergence of sanctioned psychotropic research among psychiatric practitioners. This challenge to the prevailing wisdom behind drug regulation and addiction therapy provides a historical corrective to our perception of LSD's medical efficacy.

Wonder Drug - LSD in the Land of Living Skies (Paperback): Hugh D a Goldring Wonder Drug - LSD in the Land of Living Skies (Paperback)
Hugh D a Goldring; Illustrated by Nicole Marie Burton; Afterword by Erika Dyck
R431 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R63 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Could it be that the most remote frontiers of twenty-first-century exploration lie inside the human mind? Illustrated in kaleidoscopic full colour, Wonder Drug is the graphic history of a controversial and little-known medical research project carried out in the Canadian prairies--one that championed LSD as a way to model schizophrenia and cure ailments from alcoholism to depression. Spanning the decades from the 1950s to present day, this captivating story follows Anglo-Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond down the rabbit hole of psychedelic research, conducted both in the lab and in his living room. Lurching from dazzling imagery to fanged delusions, and studded with a cast of radical personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Kay Parley, Wonder Drug is a trip like no other. As Osmond and his colleagues grapple with professional isolation, a growing moral panic, and the burgeoning War on Drugs, their growing body of findings are maligned and misunderstood--but the promise of pharmapolitical revolution is still on the horizon, and the radical research in Weyburn, Saskatchewan may yet be realized.

Psychedelic Prophets, Volume 48 - The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (Hardcover): Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul... Psychedelic Prophets, Volume 48 - The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (Hardcover)
Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell
R1,665 Discovery Miles 16 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Humphry Osmond (1917-2004) was a British-trained psychiatrist interested in the biological nature of mental illness and the potential for psychedelic drugs to treat psychoses, especially schizophrenia. In 1953, Huxley sent an appreciative note to Osmond about an article he and a colleague had published on their experiments with mescaline, which inspired an initial meeting and decade-long correspondence. This critical edition provides the complete Huxley-Osmond correspondence, chronicling an exchange between two brilliant thinkers who explored such subjects as psychedelics, the visionary experience, the nature of mind, human potentialities, schizophrenia, death and dying, Indigenous rituals and consciousness, socialism, capitalism, totalitarianism, power and authority, and human evolution. There are references to mutual friends, colleagues, and eminent figures of the day, as well as details about both men's personal lives. The letters bear witness to the development of mind-altering drugs aimed at discovering the mechanisms of mental illness and eventually its treatment. A detailed introduction situates the letters in their historical, social, and literary context, explores how Huxley and Osmond first coined the term "psychedelic," contextualizes their work in mid-century psychiatry, and reflects on their legacy as contributors to the science of mind-altering substances. Psychedelic Prophets is an extraordinary record of a full correspondence between two leading minds and a testament to friendship, intellectualism, empathy, and tolerance. The fact that these sentiments emerge so clearly from the letters, at a historical moment best known for polarizing ideological conflict, threats of nuclear war, and the rise of post-modernism, reveals much about the personalities of the authors and the persistence of these themes today.

Managing Madness - Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (Paperback): Erika Dyck,... Managing Madness - Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada (Paperback)
Erika Dyck, Alexander Deighton; As told to Hugh Lafave, John Elias, Gary Gerber, …
R803 R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Save R127 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck's Managing Madness examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.

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