LSD, my problem child and Insights/outlooks / Albert Hofmann ; translated by Jonathan Ott ; edited by Amanda Feilding.

  • Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008.
Date:
[2013], ©2013
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About this work

Also known as

LSD, mein Sorgenkind. English. 2013
Insights/outlooks

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Beckley Foundation Press : Oxford University Press, [2013], ©2013.

Physical description

xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

Translations of: LSD, mein Sorgenkind and Einsichten, Ausblicke.

Contents

LSD, my problem child: Introduction -- How LSD originated -- LSD in animal experiments and biological research -- Chemical modifications of LSD -- Use of LSD in psychiatry -- From remedy to inebriant -- The Mexican relatives of LSD : [the sacred mushroom Teonanácatl, psilocybine and psilocine, the "magic morning glory" Ololiuhqui, and the "magic plant" Ska María Pastora] -- Radiance from Ernest Jünger -- Meeting with Aldous huxley -- Correspondence with the poet-physician Walter Vogt -- Various visitors -- LSD experience and reality -- Appendix: Chemical formulæ. -- Insights/Outlooks: Introduction -- The transmitter-receiver model of reality -- Security in the natural-scientific worldview -- On possession -- The sun as nuclear power-plant.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

Translated from German.

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    History of Medicine
    FCJ /HOF
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ISBN

  • 9780199639410
  • 0199639418