In the 1970s, new developments in psychiatric research and the proliferation of psychoactive substances created a vibrant, albeit surprising, intellectual exchange between hippies, midwives and some psychiatrists about the meaning and significance of birth in the United States. This article exposes the resulting unexpected entanglements between psychedelic psychiatry and spiritual midwifery. New theories about pain, childbirth and psychedelics encouraged these different actors to seek spiritual and scientific connections between body and mind.
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