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Neuropsychedelia : the revival of hallucinogen research since the decade of the brain / Nicolas Langlitz.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langlitz, Nicolas, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neuropsychopharmacology.
- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience.
- Hallucinogenic drugs--Research.
- Hallucinogenic drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late 1960's, a new generation of hallucinogen researchers used the hype around the neurosciences in the 1990's to bring psychedelics back into the mainstream of science and society. This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. It sheds light on the central transnational axis of the resurgence connecting American psychedelic culture with the home country of LSD. In the borderland of science and religion, Neuropsychedelia explores the tensions between the use of hallucinogens to model psychoses and to evoke spiritual experiences in laboratory settings. Its protagonists, including the anthropologist himself, struggle to find a place for the mystical under conditions of late-modern materialism.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Neuropsychopharmacology as Spiritual Technology
- 1. Psychedelic Revival
- 2. Swiss Psilocybin and US Dollars
- 3. The Varieties of Psychedelic Lab Experience
- 4. Enacting Experimental Psychoses
- 5. Between Animality and Divinity
- 6. Mystic Materialism
- Conclusion: Fieldwork in Perennial Philosophy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520954908
- 0520954904
- OCLC:
- 824733658
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