New Book Reveals How the Psychedelic Experience in Midcentury America Was Shaped by Historical, Soci (IMAGE)

Bar-Ilan University

New Book Reveals How the Psychedelic Experience in Midcentury America Was Shaped by Historical, Soci

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Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or cognitive enhancers that spark innovation? Activators for one's private muse or part of a political movement? In his new book American Trip (MIT Press, 2020), Ido Hartogsohn, of Bar-Ilan University, examines how the psychedelic experience in midcentury America was shaped by historical, social, and cultural forces--by set (the mindset of the user) and setting (the environments in which the experience takes place). Photo: Book cover

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