The acid room : the psychedelic trials and tribulations of Hollywood Hospital / Jesse Donaldson and Erika Dyck.

  • Donaldson, Jesse, 1982-
Date:
[2022]
  • Books

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Description

"Between 1957 and 1968 the Hollywood Hospital conducted psychedelic psychiatry experimentation, treating alcoholics, anxiety patients, and unhappy couples. Its unorthodox methods boasting a success rate of 50-80%, and attracting scores of celebrity patients, including Andy Williams, Cary Grant, and Ethel Kennedy. Those same methods would eventually bring about the facility's downfall, as well as the condemnation of physicians, the government, and the police."-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Vancouver, BC Canada : Anvil Press Publishers Inc., [2022]

Physical description

155 pages : black and white illustrations ; 17 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-155).

Contents

Part I. An inner restlessness: Breathe ; On the run ; Time -- Part II. Kaleidoscopic display of colours: Money ; Any colour you like -- Part III. Most severe crisis: Us and them ; The great gig in the sky.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FCJ.PX
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781772141863
  • 1772141860