Trips
Subtitle: How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
Contributors: Ellen Seefelt (Illustrator)
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781888363340
Subjects: Pharmacology; Popular culture; Medical; Neuropsychopharmacology; Science; Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology; Social Science / Popular Culture; Drug Abuse; General; Hallucinogenic drugs
First sentence: LSD STUDIES BEGAN mainly with psychotherapy patients, and, in the 1950s and early '60s, researchers used hallucinogens to produce changes of perception, thought and mood that many psychiatrists thought looked a lot like schizophrenia.
Description: Pellerin leavens scientific terminology with illustrations and cartoons and devotes a large portion to the history of hallucinogen use and control.