Phantastica
Author: Louis Lewin
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780892817832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translated from the second German edition by P.H.A. Wirth.
Author: Louis Lewin
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780892817832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translated from the second German edition by P.H.A. Wirth.
Author: Maarten H. J. van der Meer
Publisher: Maarten H. J. van der Meer
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 0244217254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(1) Nomenclatural Novelties in Aloaceae (2) ×Astroworthiopsis: A New Nothogenus for Hybrids Between Astroloba and Haworthiopsis (Aloaceae) (3) An Overview of Patented Cultivars in Aloë, Aristaloë, ×Aristeria, Astroloba, ×Gasteraloë, Gasteria, Gonialoë, Haworthiopsis, and Tulista (Aloaceae)
Author: Brian A. Sharpless
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0190245867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many fascinating and important psychological disorders are either omitted from our current diagnostic systems or rarely covered during graduate or medical training. As a result, most mental health students and trainees are never taught to identify, diagnose, or treat them. This lack of attention has real-world consequences not only for patients, but for basic science as well. Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders collects and synthesizes the scientific and clinical literatures for 21 lesser-known conditions. The coverage is broad, ranging from exploding head syndrome and koro to body integrity identity disorder and persistent genital arousal disorder. All chapters follow a uniform structure and introduce each disorder with a vivid clinical vignette. After discussing the historical and cultural contexts for the disorder, authors describe the typical symptoms, associated features, current role in diagnostic systems (if any), and etiologies. Clinically relevant information on assessment and differential diagnosis is also provided. Finally, authors review the treatment options and suggest future directions for research. This unique and engaging volume will not only be a useful resource for researchers and clinicians who already possess expertise in the more well-known manifestations of psychopathology, but it will also be of interest to students and trainees in the mental health professions.
Author: Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 1351538713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.
Author: Albert Hofmann
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780979862229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition. In LSD: My Problem Child, we follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other notable figures about his remarkable discovery. Underlying it all is Dr. Hofmann's powerful conclusion that mystical experiences may be our planet's best hope for survival. Whether induced by LSD, meditation, or arising spontaneously, such experiences help us to comprehend "the wonder, the mystery of the divine, in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula, in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people." More than sixty years after the birth of Albert Hofmann's problem child, his vision of its true potential is more relevant, and more needed, than ever.
Author: Baron Ernst von Bibra
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780892814985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pioneering study of psychoactive plants and their role in society, initially published in 1855, is one of the first books to examine the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of the world’s major stimulants and inebriants. It presents a fascinating panorama of the world-wide use of psychoactive plants in the nineteenth century.
Author: Dale Pendell
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556438875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Pharmako poeia: plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide)"--Provided by publisher.