How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Experimental Psychosis Movement
Chapter 2 LSD, the CIA, and the Military
Chapter 3 From Psychotomimetics to Psychedelics
Chapter 4 Experiments In Set and Setting
Chapter 5 Psychedelics, Creativity, and Culture
Chapter 6 Psychedelics Go to Silicon Valley
Chapter 7 The Psychedelic Controversy
Chapter 8 American Trip
Chapter 9 LSD and the 1960s
Chapter 10 The Future of Set and Setting
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Ido Hartogsohn is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar Ilan University.
"Hartogsohn's book is a seminal contribution to his discipline and
the larger issue of extrapharmacological factors shaping drug
effects."
–Frontiers in Pharmacology
"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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