Neuropsychedelia : The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain / / Nicolas Langlitz

• Autore: Langlitz Nicolas
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 154.4
• Soggetto topico: Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research; Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience; Neuropsychopharmacology; Hallucinogenic drugs - Research; Science; Psychiatric Somatic Therapies; Religious Philosophies; Pharmacology; Behavioral Sciences; Psychotropic Drugs; Models, Theoretical; Central Nervous System Agents; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Biological Science Disciplines; Natural Science Disciplines; Investigative Techniques; Therapeutic Uses; Health Occupations; Religion; Pharmacologic Actions; Chemical Actions and Uses; Humanities; Hallucinogens; Mysticism; Psychopharmacology; Research; Models, Psychological
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Neuropsychedelia
• ISBN: 0-520-95490-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820556203321
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