LSD

Hofmann's LSD will be of high interest to a wide audience of curious and scientifically minded readers. Few books about how science unfolds are as captivating and intriguing as this volume.

Auteur

Albert Hofmann, Deceased

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Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, synthesised LSD in 1938. Although his work produced other important drugs, it was LSD that shaped his career. Shortly before his death, Hofmann approved a new and updated translation of his autobiography (first published by McGraw Hill in 1979). It appears here for the first time in print.

Contenu

• Foreword by Amanda Feilding

• Translator's Preface by Jonathan Ott

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• LSD: My Problem Child

• 1: How LSD Originated

• 2: LSD in Animal-Experiments and Biological Research

• 3: Chemical Modifications of LSD

• 4: Use of LSD in Psychiatry

• 5: From Remedy to Inebriant

• 6: The Mexican Relatives of LSD

• 7: Radiance from Ernst Jünger

• 8: Meeting with Aldous Huxley

• 9: Correspondence with the Poet-Physician Walter Vogt

• 10: Various Visitors

• 11: LSD-Experience and Reality

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• Insights/Outlooks

• I: Introduction

• II: The Transmitter-Receiver Model of Reality

• III: Security in the Natural-Scientific Worldview

• IV: On Possession

• V: The Sun as a Nuclear Power-Plant