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Psychonauts : drugs and the making of the modern mind / Mike Jay.
"Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments--in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals. But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear. From Sigmund Freud's experiments with cocaine to William James's epiphany on nitrous oxide, Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism. Today, as we embrace novel cognitive enhancers and psychedelics, the experiments of the original psychonauts reveal the deep influence of mind-altering drugs on Western science, philosophy, and culture." -- Dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300257946
- ISBN: 0300257945
- Physical Description: x, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New Haven ; Yale University Press ; [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-347) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Altered states of consciousness. Psychonauts. Intellectuals > Drug use. Hallucinogenic drugs > Psychological aspects. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 154.4 JAY (Text) | 50686016294808 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hughes Library | 154.4 JAY (Text) | 32378005237302 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
