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From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Center: LSD in the Netherlands

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2023

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Snelders, StephenISNI 000000003149928X

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Dyck, Erika
Elcock, Chris

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14417.003.0023

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Abstract

Dutch psychedelic history had its own characteristics. In psychiatry, LSD therapy was used for the management of the traumas of World War II; in Dutch society, overlapping groups of activists and psychedelics users were involved in a playful transformation of society into a “Magical Center”; and in economics, the Netherlands became a key player in the illegal production and distribution of LSD worldwide.

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Psychedelics, LSD, The Netherlands, drugsgeschiedenis

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Snelders, S 2023, From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Center : LSD in the Netherlands. in E Dyck & C Elcock (eds), Expanding Mindscapes : A Global History of Psychedelics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 357-377. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14417.003.0023

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http://hdl.handle.net/1874/436285