The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editors Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock deliberately move away from these places in this collection to reveal a longer and more global history of psychedelics, which chronicles their discovery, use, and cultural impact in the twentieth century.
The authors in this collection explore everything from LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia to the first applications of LSD-25 in South America to the intersection of modernism and ayahuasca in China. Along the way, they also consider how psychedelic experiments generated their own cultural expressions, where the specter of the United States may have loomed large and where colonial empires exerted influence on the local reception of psychedelics in botanical and pharmaceutical pursuits.
Breaking new ground by adopting perspectives that are currently lacking in the historiography of psychedelics, this collection adds to the burgeoning field by offering important discussions on underexplored topics such as gender, agriculture, parapsychology, anarchism, and technological innovations.
這是首個探索迷幻藥多樣且全球歷史的系列作品，涵蓋了幾代研究者和思想家的觀點。
《擴展心靈景觀》提供了一個引人入勝且多元的迷幻藥歷史，這段歷史遍及全球。儘管迄今為止的文獻大多集中於這些藥物在美國和加拿大的歷史，但編輯Erika Dyck和Chris Elcock在本系列中故意遠離這些地區，以揭示迷幻藥更長久且更全球化的歷史，記錄了它們在二十世紀的發現、使用和文化影響。
本系列的作者探討了從共產主義捷克斯洛伐克的LSD心理治療到南美洲LSD-25的首次應用，再到中國現代主義與ayahuasca的交集等各種主題。在此過程中，他們還考慮了迷幻藥實驗如何產生自身的文化表達，並探討了美國的影響力以及殖民帝國如何影響當地對迷幻藥在植物學和製藥領域的接受度。
本系列通過採用目前在迷幻藥歷史學中缺乏的視角，開創了新的研究領域，並對性別、農業、超心理學、無政府主義和技術創新等尚未深入探討的主題進行了重要討論，為這一新興領域增添了貢獻。
Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of
Psychedelic Psychiatry and
Facing Eugenics; coauthor of
Managing Madness,
Challenging Choices, and
The Acid Room; and coeditor of
Psychedelic Prophets,
A Culture's Catalyst, and
Wonder Drug. Erika is also a Board Member of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plants and Associate Director of Chacruna Canada.
Chris Elcock is an award-winning independent historian of psychedelics who has authored
Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City along with several articles on the history of the American psychedelic movement.
Erika Dyck 是薩斯喀徹溫大學健康與社會正義歷史的教授及加拿大研究主席。她是《Psychedelic Psychiatry》和《Facing Eugenics》的作者；《Managing Madness》、《Challenging Choices》和《The Acid Room》的共同作者；以及《Psychedelic Prophets》、《A Culture's Catalyst》和《Wonder Drug》的共同編輯。Erika 同時也是 Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plants 的董事會成員及 Chacruna Canada 的副主任。
Chris Elcock 是一位獲獎的獨立迷幻藥歷史學家，他撰寫了《Psychedelic New York: A History of LSD in the City》以及多篇有關美國迷幻運動歷史的文章。
