Psychonauts by Mike Jay
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
A sweeping cultural history tracing how self-experimenters—scientists, physicians, writers, and artists—used psychoactive drugs to probe consciousness from the 19th century to today, and how their insights reshaped psychology, psychiatry, and modern ideas of the self. Moving from early anesthetics and hashish salons through cocaine’s vogue and the rise, fall, and revival of psychedelics, it profiles charismatic explorers and the institutions that alternately embraced and suppressed their findings, revealing how intoxication has repeatedly expanded—and unsettled—the boundaries of mind and medicine.
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- Published
- 2023
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- English
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