| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus. By Erika Dyck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi, 199 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8994-3.)

Psychedelic Psychiatry represents the first archive-based, sober history of LSD's early years as a promising pharmaceutical and its subsequent decline. The book focuses on Humphrey Osmond, the clinical chief of the Weyburn, Saskatchewan, mental hospital in the heyday of the province's experiments in public medicine. Throughout the 1950s, with research chief Abram Hoffer, Osmond explored a theory that schizophrenia is caused by abnormal metabolism of adrenaline, first using mescaline (which chemically resembles adrenaline) and then with its synthetic derivative, LSD. "Normal" volunteers, including the researchers themselves, described drug-induced hallucinations to attending psychiatrists. These hallucinations could in principle be compared with those of schizophrenics, although the indescribability of the LSD experience presented an obstacle.

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