Article ID: CBB001450147

Empathetic Reform and the Psychedelic Aesthetic: Women's Accounts of LSD Therapy (2014)

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Both written under pseudonym, Constance Newland's My Self and I (1962) and Jane Dunlap's Exploring Inner Space (1961) are firsthand accounts of psychedelic drug use taken in therapeutic research settings that demonstrate how women's access to discursive legitimacy was negotiated in mid-twentieth-century life-writing. Newland and Dunlap use realism to connect readers to their psychedelic subjects, while estranging readers' familiar worldviews through metaphor. Through reader recognition and estrangement, Newland and Dunlap develop readers' empathy as a reformist tool to challenge standard narratives of literature and science and carve out new representational space for alternative states of consciousness.

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Authors & Contributors
Larsen, Jens Knud
Oram, Matthew
Sarah Carr
Hartogsohn, Ido
Ross, Colin A.
Johnstad, Petter Grahl
Concepts
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatry
LSD (drug)
Psychotropic drugs
Drug use
Mental disorders and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Saskatchewan (Canada)
Kansas (U.S.)
England
Portugal
Institutions
Saskatchewan Hospital
United States. Army
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana)
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