Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City 9780228018032

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Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City
 9780228018032

Table of contents :
Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City
Cover
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Dedication
If You’re Going to New York City
1 Psychoactive Licence: Drugs and Urban Bohemia in a World Capital
Drugs in the City
The Birth of Psychedelic Bohemianism
2 Leary before LSD: Psilocybin, High Society, and the Birth of a Psychedelic Movement
The Bohemian Connection
Turning on High Society
3 Chemical Archetypes: From Experimental Science to Psychedelic Therapy
New York’s Early Psychedelic Research
Psychedelic Psychoanalysis
Regulating Acid
4 New York on Acid
The Early Days of LSD
East of the Village
How to Turn On
5 Building Utopia: Nina Graboi, the East Village, and the Psychedelic Counterculture
From the Third Reich to Greenwich Village
The League for Spiritual Discovery
The New Village
6 Kaleidoscope Eyes: Isaac Abrams, Psychedelic Art, and Multimedia Light Shows
Becoming an Artist
Psychedelic Art Is Coming
Psychedelic Celebrations
From Light Shows to Film
Cerebrum
7 Changing Scenes: Prohibition and the Demise of Psychedelic Idealism
The Backlash against LSD
Once There Was a Village
My Sweet Lord
The End of the Psychedelic Movement
Meanwhile, Midtown …
8 The Sixties Happened in the Seventies
Central Park in the Seventies
New Scenes, New Drugs
A Wave That Never Rolled Back
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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