{"product_id":"american-trip-isbn-9780262539142","title":"American Trip","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or cognitive enhancers that spark innovation? Activators for one's private muse or part of a political movement? In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers studied psychedelics in all these incarnations, often arriving at contradictory results. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Trip\u003c\/i\u003e, Ido Hartogsohn examines how the psychedelic experience in midcentury America was shaped by historical, social, and cultural forces—by set (the mindset of the user) and setting (the environments in which the experience takes place). He explores uses of psychedelics that range from CIA and military experimentation to psychedelic-inspired styles in music, fashion, design, architecture, and film. Along the way, he introduces us to a memorable cast of characters including Betty Eisner, a psychologist who drew on her own experience to argue for the therapeutic potential of LSD, and Timothy Leary, who founded the Harvard Psilocybin Project and went on to become psychedelics' most famous advocate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHartogsohn chronicles these developments in the context of the era's cultural trends, including the cold war, the counterculture, the anti-psychiatric movement, and the rise of cybernetics. Drawing on insights from the study of science, technology, and society, he develops the idea of LSD as a \u003ci\u003esuggestible technology\u003c\/i\u003e, the properties of which are shaped by suggestion. He proposes the concept of \u003ci\u003ecollective set and setting\u003c\/i\u003e, arguing that the historical and sociocultural context of midcentury America offered a particular set and setting—creating the conditions for what he calls the American trip.\u003c\/p\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 The Experimental Psychosis Movement\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 LSD, the CIA, and the Military\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 From Psychotomimetics to Psychedelics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Experiments In Set and Setting\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Psychedelics, Creativity, and Culture\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Psychedelics Go to Silicon Valley\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 The Psychedelic Controversy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 American Trip\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 LSD and the 1960s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 The Future of Set and Setting\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Hartogsohn's book is a seminal contribution to his discipline and the larger issue of extrapharmacological factors shaping drug effects.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003eFrontiers in Pharmacology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Trip\u003c\/i\u003e presents a timely and invaluable guide to the crucial lessons that twentiethcentury psychedelic history provides for the current psychedelic renaissance, and to using set and setting as a strategic tool for ensuring the healthy integration of psychedelics into society.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – Rick Doblin, Executive Director of MAPS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In clearly and rigorously exploring the single most consequential idea in psychedelic studies — the notion of set and setting — \u003ci\u003eAmerican Trip\u003c\/i\u003e not only insightfully reframes the many histories of LSD, but offers a humanistic and reflexive alternative to the often simplistic discourse of today’s growing psychedelic industry.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – Erik Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Trip\u003c\/i\u003e guides its readers through the reflexive arts and sciences of set and setting used to study psychedelics, beckoning towards an intense pluriverse, full of beguiling guises, strange twists, and thricetold tales. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – Nancy D. Campbell, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; author of \u003ci\u003eOD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this landmark book, Hartogsohn enlarges the traditional parameters of set and setting by including the larger socialcultural matrix. This expanded definition provides a more sophisticated understanding of how nondrug factors determine the nature of any psychedelic drug experience.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – Rick Strassman, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine and author of \u003ci\u003eDMT: The Spirit Molecule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Trip\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to a sociological enlightenment of our drug culture. Hartogsohn’s vibrant book shows how 1960s America made psychedelics do what they did and suggests that these wondrous molecules will do something altogether different in other times and places. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e – Nicolas Langlitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New School for Social Research; author of \u003ci\u003eNeuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIdo Hartogsohn is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar Ilan University.How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience inmidcentury America, from CIA experiments with LSD to Timothy Leary's Harvard Psi","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300768534757,"sku":"NP9780262539142","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539142.jpg?v=1767721443","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-trip-isbn-9780262539142","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}