How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project
Ido Hartogsohn is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar Ilan University.
"American Trip presents a timely and invaluable guide to the
crucial lessons that twentiethcentury psychedelic history provides
for the current psychedelic renaissance, and to using set and
setting as a strategic tool for ensuring the healthy integration of
psychedelics into society."
- Rick Doblin, Executive Director of MAPS
"In clearly and rigorously exploring the single most consequential
idea in psychedelic studies - the notion of set and setting -
American Trip not only insightfully reframes the many
histories of LSD, but offers a humanistic and reflexive alternative
to the often simplistic discourse of today's growing psychedelic
industry."
- Erik Davis, author of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and
Visionary Experience in the Seventies
"American Trip guides its readers through the reflexive
arts and sciences of set and setting used to study psychedelics,
beckoning towards an intense pluriverse, full of beguiling guises,
strange twists, and thricetold tales.
- Nancy D. Campbell, Professor of Science and Technology
Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; author of OD:
Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose
"In this landmark book, Hartogsohn enlarges the traditional
parameters of set and setting by including the larger
socialcultural matrix. This expanded definition provides a more
sophisticated understanding of how nondrug factors determine the
nature of any psychedelic drug experience."
- Rick Strassman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine and author
of DMT: The Spirit Molecule
"American Trip amounts to a sociological enlightenment of
our drug culture. Hartogsohn's vibrant book shows how 1960s America
made psychedelics do what they did and suggests that these wondrous
molecules will do something altogether different in other times and
places.
- Nicolas Langlitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New
School for Social Research; author of Neuropsychedelia: The
Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the
Brain
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