Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern MindA provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent studies in which he has investigated the roots of a kind of psychoactive exploration that we tend to associate with the nineteen fifties and sixties. Clare Bucknell, New Yorker Captivating. .

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