Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science Cultural Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Labate, Beatriz Caiuby (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cavnar, Clancy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Ethnology.; Psychiatry.; Pharmacotherapy.; Civilization-History.; Cultural Anthropology.; Cultural History.

This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions. The first is the way social scientists and historians treat the history of psychiatry and healing, especially as it intersects with psychedelics. The second encompasses a reflection on the substances themselves and their effects on bodies....

Table of Contents:

• 1. Who is Keeping Tabs? LSD Lessons From the Past for the Future
• 2. Peyote's Race Problem
• 3. Undiscovering the Pueblo Mágico: Lessons from Huautla for the Psychedelic Renaissance
• 4. The Use of Salvia divinorum from a Mazatec Perspective
• 5. Examining the Therapeutic Potential of Kratom within the American Drug Regulatory System
• 6. Bubbling with Controversy: Legal Challenges for Ceremonial Ayahuasca Circles in the U.S
• 7. Integrating Psychedelic Medicines and Psychiatry: Theory and Methods of a Model Clinic
• 8. Whole Organisms or Pure Compounds? Entourage Effect Versus Drug Specificity
• 9. Placebo Problems: Boundary Work in the Psychedelic Science Renaissance
• 10. Psychedelic Naturalism and Interspecies Alliance: Views From the Emerging Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Mycology Movement
• 11. Plant Knowledges: Indigenous Approaches and Interspecies Listening Toward Decolonizing Ayahuasca Research
• 12. Gnosis Potency: DMT Breakthroughs and Paragnosis.