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Paul E. Stepansky. Psychoanalysis at the Margins. New York: Other Press, 2009. 319 pp. $39.00 (cloth). ISBN-13 978-1590513408

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Book ID: 102340150
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 107 KB
Volume: 46
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5061
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20462

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Readers interested in the history of hallucinogens would do better to turn to Erika Dyck's Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus (2008), which chronicles the reorientation of LSD from a psychotherapeutic tool and an object of legitimate clinical research to a "catalyst for a cultural revolution whereby a drug-crazed generation of North American youth would steer the world into a future of chaos and immorality" (Dyck, 2008, p. 115). While any social history of the construction of LSD as a threat to Western civilization and monotheism would have to take seriously the actions of the protagonists of Lattin's book, The Harvard Psychedelic Club is best read as a biographical chronicle of four men and their tense and complicated relationships with each other. The significance of their words and deeds for " Kill[ing] the Fifties and Ushering in a New Age for America" falls short of delivering the promised master narrative implied by the marketing and promotion of the book.

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