Hofmann, Albert - LSD

Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, synthesised LSD in 1938. Although his work produced other important drugs, it was LSD that shaped his career. Shortly before his death, Hofmann approved a new and updated translation of his autobiography (first published by McGraw Hill in 1979). It appears here for the first time in print.

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Amanda Feilding
Translator's Preface by Jonathan Ott

LSD: My Problem Child
1 How LSD Originated
2 LSD in Animal-Experiments and Biological Research
3 Chemical Modifications of LSD
4 Use of LSD in Psychiatry
5 From Remedy to Inebriant
6 The Mexican Relatives of LSD
7 Radiance from Ernst Junger
8 Meeting with Aldous Huxley
9 Correspondence with the Poet-Physician Walter Vogt
10 Various Visitors
11 LSD-Experience and Reality

Insights/Outlooks
I Introduction
II The Transmitter-Receiver Model of Reality
III Security in the Natural-Scientific Worldview
IV On Possession
V The Sun as a Nuclear Power-Plant