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LSD: The Highway to Mental Health
by Milan Hausner with Erna Segal
Publisher:
ASC Books 
Year:
2009 
Reviewed by Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D.
12/21/2009

What happened to LSD psychotherapy in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after Stan Grof came to the United States? This book describes the work of Dr. Milan Hausner, Medical Director of a psychiatric clinic in Sadská, near Prague, who supervised over 3,000 therapeutic LSD sessions from 1954 to 1980. [ read more ]

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Delusions of Normality: Sanity, Drugs, Sex, Money and Belief in America
by J.P. Harpignies
Publisher:
Cool Grove Press 
Year:
2009 
Reviewed by Erik Davis
12/7/2009

Delusions of Normality is one of those gifts that does a lot of heavy lifting for you—now you don’t have to read all the newspapers, books, and sociological sources Harpignies uses to gather facts, or at least patterns, that deconstruct mainstream assumptions about the depth and breadth of kinkiness or graft or drug gobbling in American life. [ read more ]

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Weekends at Bellevue
by Julie Holland, MD
Publisher:
Bantam 
Year:
2009 
Reviewed by Jon Hanna
12/1/2009

Weekends at Bellevue is the story of a cocky young doctor transformed into a thoughtful caregiver. Through understanding her own mental foibles, Holland becomes better equipped to deal with the issues of her psych patients. People fascinated by the ways in which the mind works, and how it can go off track, will greatly enjoy reading her tale. [ read more ]