Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Saskatchewan’s Psychedelic Research: An Episode in Scientific History

“Science in the Making”: The Nature of Scientific Research

The Organization of Scientific Research

“Scientific Psychiatry” in Post–Second World War America (1945–75)

The Psychedelic Revolution

Deconstructing Psychedelic Saskatchewan

Structure of the Book

Part One: Psychedelic Science: The Saskatchewan Experiments (1951–61)

1: Model Psychoses and the Adrenochrome Hypothesis

Humphry Osmond: Psychedelic Grandmaster

Dr. Hoffer, I Presume?

LSD Comes to Saskatchewan

Duncan Blewett: Psychedelic Trickster

The Adrenochrome Hypothesis Unfolds

2: Psychiatric Paradigm Clash

3: Beginning Hallucinogenic Therapy

Hallucinogens and Psychotherapy

Duncan Blewett: Scientist Transformed

The Native American Church Episode

4: The Other World: Psychedelic Therapy

Criticism of Saskatchewan’s LSD Treatment Program

5: New Frontiers in Psychedelic Research

Patient-Centred Architecture and the Sociopetal Concept

Psychedelic Explorations in Parapsychology

Closing Time for Hallucinogenic Drug Research in Saskatchewan

Part Two: The Scientific Fallout: Psychedelic Science on Trial (1961–75)

6: The Great Schizophrenia Controversy

The Psychopharmacological Revolution

Rise of the Double-Blind Method

Hoffer and Osmond versus the Psychiatric Community

The NIMH and the Adrenochrome Hypothesis

Megavitamins and Schizophrenia

Psychiatry and the War on Vitamins

Megavitamin Therapy and Its Allies

7: LSD: A New Hope for Alcoholism?

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

The Scientific Approach to Alcoholism

Alcoholism Research in Saskatchewan in the 1960s

Under the Scientific Microscope

The Scientific Case against LSD Therapy

The Spring Grove Experiments

The Road Ahead for Psychedelic Therapy

8: Psychedelic Drug Research, the CIA, and the ’60s Counterculture

Counterculture Rising

The Psychedelic In-Crowd (Part I)

The Harvard Affair

Duncan Blewett: The Timothy Leary of Canada?

Black Market Panic and “Green LSD”

LSD: A Weapon as Powerful as the Atom Bomb?

The LSD Movement

Psychedelic Pranksters

Scientific LSD: The Beginning of the End

The Psychedelic In-Crowd (Part 2)

Summer of Love: Psychedelia Peaks

The Psychedelic In-Crowd (Part 3)

Psychedelic Obituary

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index