The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America

by Matthew Oram

The rise--and fall--of research into the therapeutic potential of LSD.

After LSD arrived in the United States in 1949, the drug's therapeutic promise quickly captured the interests of psychiatrists. In the decade that followed, modern psychopharmacology was born and research into the drug's perceptual and psychological effects boomed. By the early 1960s, psychiatrists focused on a particularly promising treatment known as psychedelic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142620X
• ISBN13: 9781421426204
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"