Contents
Preface: The Politics of Ecstasy
Introduction: Set and Setting
1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific Method
2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of Firsthand Experience
3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience
4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of Psychedelic Drugs
5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture
Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in the Psychedelic Renaissance
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index