Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

“Fascinating.”—Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian

“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”—Rhys Blakely, Times (UK)

“Excellent.”—Clare Bucknell, New Yorker

A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind

Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of dr...