Description
Dyck combines archival materials, interviews, medical journal articles, and popular press accounts to create a reliable and original account of the rise and fall of psychedelic psychiatry, and of its central, tragic figure, Humphry Osmond... Her analysis is dead on. -- David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida
About the Author
Erika Dyck is an associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
Reviews
Digs deeply into an area of drug history that has for the most part been ignored. Literary Review of Canada 2009 The story is very well written and researched... The book is a good read and has the bonus of imparting historical understanding of psychiatry during its most exciting and innovative era. British Journal of Psychiatry 2009 A smoothly written account. -- Edward Shorter American Historical Review 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is a highly nuanced work of scholarship that sheds new light on LSD research in Saskatchewan. -- Kam Teo Saskatchewan History 2009 As Dyck shows well, LSD gives historians a lot to think about. -- John C. Burnham Isis 2009 Crisply written, well-researched and cogently argued. -- Alex Mold Social History of Medicine 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry represents the first archive-based, sober history of LSD's early years as a promising pharmaceutical and its subsequent decline. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of American History 2009 Psychedelic Psychiatry is intensely interesting; an important and influential period of transition in psychiatry that has direct and important implications for current psychiatry... I highly recommend it to others. -- Mathew Martin-Iverson Health and History 2009
Book Information
ISBN 9780801889943
Author Erika Dyck
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 431g