Psychedelic Psychiatry

"The story is very well written and researched . . . The book is a good read and has the bonus of imparting historical understanding of psychiatry during its most exciting and innovative era."—British Journal of Psychiatry

"A smoothly written account."—Edward Shorter , American Historical Review

"Psychedelic Psychiatry is a highly nuanced work of scholarship that sheds new light on LSD research in Saskatchewan."—Kam Teo, Saskatchewan History

"As Dyck shows well, LSD gives historians a lot to think about."—John C. Burnham, Isis

"Crisply written, well-researched and cogently argued."—Alex Mold, Social History of Medicine

"Psychedelic Psychiatry represents the first archive-based, sober history of LSD's early years as a promising pharmaceutical and its subsequent decline."—Nicolas Rasmussen, Journal of American History

"Psychedelic Psychiatry is intensely interesting; an important and influential period of transition in psychiatry that has direct and important implications for current psychiatry . . . I highly recommend it to others."—Mathew Martin-Iverson, Health and History

"Dyck combines archival materials, interviews, medical journal articles, and popular press accounts to create a reliable and original account of the rise and fall of psychedelic psychiatry, and of its central, tragic figure, Humphry Osmond . . . Her analysis is dead on."—David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida

"Contributes mightily to our understanding of prairie culture and offers a much needed look into an ethically informed drug therapy that contributed to the struggle for universal healthcare advanced by Tommy Douglas and the CCF."—Gary Genosko, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies