The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy: : Transactions of a Conference on d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23, and 24, 1959, Princeton, N.J.

304 pp. 9.25" x 6.25" THE FIRST LSD CONFERENCE (FUNDED BY THE CIA?) Harold Abramson spent his career walking the line between cutting edge psychological research and human rights violations as he worked on Project MKUltra, the CIA's secret experimentation program to develop a mind-control drug. Much of Abramson's research was funded by the CIA, funneled through The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation as he injected unwitting hospital patients with LSD. Abramson documented the first international conference on LSD, held in 1959, in in The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy. Perfectly encapsulating the tension between psychotherapy studies and the CIA's gross overreach, Abramson and other researchers presented groundbreaking papers on therapeutic psychedelics at the Macy Foundation-sponsored event. Presented here is a first edition. Mild rubbing extremities, near fine in near fine, toned dust jacket, with some spots of rubbing extremities and creases, in mylar cover. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine titled in gilt in printed dust jacket. ($5.00).…