Book ID: CBB914264416

The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital (2022)

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Jesse Donaldson (Author)
Dyck, Erika (Author)


Anvil Press
Publication date: 2022
Language: English


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 160

From the street, New Westminster's Hollywood Hospital didn't look like much - just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name. But, between 1957 and 1968, it was the site of more than 6000 supervised acid trips, as part of the burgeoning (and controversial) field of psychedelic psychiatry. Under the care of Medical Director J Ross MacLean, and ex-spy/researcher Al "Captain Trips" Hubbard, it became a mecca for alcoholics, anxiety patients, and unhappy couples (as well as celebrities like Andy Williams), its unorthodox methods boasting a success rate of nearly 80%. But the same media attention that brought the hospital to prominence also assured its downfall, as prohibition forces drove their work underground for more than 50 years. Written by 49.2 regular Jesse Donaldson and academic historian Erika Dyck, THE ACID ROOM takes readers into the hospital's inner sanctum, charting its meteoric rise and fall as it opened up brave new worlds in medicine, and put Canada at the forefront of a movement that is only now being fully explored.Literary Nonfiction.

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Authors & Contributors
Dyck, Erika
Campbell, Nancy D.
Dooley, Chris
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Jasen, Patricia
Kline, Wendy
Journals
History of Psychiatry
History of the Human Sciences
Pharmacy in History
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Canadian Historical Review
Gender and History
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
The MIT Press
McMaster University (Canada)
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychedelics
Medicine and law
Psychotropic drugs
LSD (drug)
Psychology
People
Leary, Timothy
Beecher, Henry Knowles
Huxley, Aldous
Lilly, John Cunningham
Osmond, Humphry Fortescue
Cameron, Donald Ewen
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Canada
United States
Norway
Institutions
Harvard University
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
United States. Army
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
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