Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25 by Richard Blum and associates, foreword by Nevitt Sanford – a pioneering 1960s study of psychedelic users.
One of the earliest social-science studies of LSD, Utopiates reports on research at Stanford into who took LSD in the early 1960s – from therapists and their patients to informal and religious users – why they took it, and what they said it did for them. A key document of the pre-prohibition psychedelic era.
Written before LSD was made illegal, the book offers a rare, sober snapshot of the early psychedelic scene based on interviews and questionnaires. It compares users with non-users, examines motives, experiences and after-effects, and considers the social and cultural significance of the drug at a moment when it was moving from the laboratory and the clinic into the wider culture.
A scarce and important primary source for historians of psychedelics and the 1960s.
Richard Blum was an American psychologist and criminologist at Stanford University who led the research project on which the book is based. Nevitt Sanford was a leading social psychologist, co-author of The Authoritarian Personality.
Ideal for: collectors of psychedelic literature, historians of the 1960s, and researchers in drug policy and psychology.
Carefully packed and shipped from Australia. Questions about this copy, or want more photos? Get in touch.
Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25 by Richard Blum and associates, foreword by Nevitt Sanford – a pioneering 1960s study of psychedelic users.
One of the earliest social-science studies of LSD, Utopiates reports on research at Stanford into who took LSD in the early 1960s – from therapists and their patients to informal and religious users – why they took it, and what they said it did for them. A key document of the pre-prohibition psychedelic era.
Written before LSD was made illegal, the book offers a rare, sober snapshot of the early psychedelic scene based on interviews and questionnaires. It compares users with non-users, examines motives, experiences and after-effects, and considers the social and cultural significance of the drug at a moment when it was moving from the laboratory and the clinic into the wider culture.
A scarce and important primary source for historians of psychedelics and the 1960s.
Richard Blum was an American psychologist and criminologist at Stanford University who led the research project on which the book is based. Nevitt Sanford was a leading social psychologist, co-author of The Authoritarian Personality.
Ideal for: collectors of psychedelic literature, historians of the 1960s, and researchers in drug policy and psychology.
Carefully packed and shipped from Australia. Questions about this copy, or want more photos? Get in touch.
