I had the pleasure of being interviewed by @shaylalove.bsky.social to talk about the history of women psychedelic therapists! ✨ themicrodose.substack.com/p/the-untold...

Strange slowdown in psilocybin treatment approvals in Canada, for no apparent reason. To date, 304 patients have received it since 2022, mainly for depression or anxiety related to the end of life. Article in French (with a link to the original article in Nature): www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s...

✨New Article✨ With the amazing @alexdymock.bsky.social for the @chacruna.bsky.social 💛

A great event and a GREAT poster 😆👌☮️ @usask.bsky.social

🍄The first symposium of the Psychedelic Medicine section of AFPBN will be held in Paris on June 5, and here's the program! Information and registration: www.afpbn.org/1st-national...

An important discussion on indigenous knowledge and practices! Online: open-foundation.org/events/onlin...

The Courtauld Gallery in London is staging an exhibition featuring drawings by French poet Henri Michaux, made under the influence of mescaline in the 1960s 🤩 If, like me, you can't go, there's the catalog to console yourself: www.paulholberton.com/product-page... 🩵

With English subtitles availables 🤗♥️

🔞Article🔥 Back in the 50s and 60s, questions of medical ethics were still in their infancy. In this context, women were particularly involved in exploring the therapeutic potential of physical contact when using psychedelics. Learn more in free access: hal.science/hal-04799496v1

"La Bretagne pittoresque" in which hemp was grown, as it was everywhere else in France at the time ✨ Postcard preserved at the Musée de Baud

I've received two new archives from the son of Oscar Janiger, the Californian psychiatrist who gave LSD to almost 1,000 people in the 1950s, including Cary Grant and Anais Nin. The latter was so interested in his experience that she asked Janiger to give her LSD to give to a couple of friends, at

A great opportunity to do a PhD in France on the history of mental health in the 20th century. @dicopolhis.bsky.social Two requirements: hold a Master's degree, not have lived in France for more than one year in the last 3 years Full details can be found here: amethis.doctorat.org/amethis-clie...

‼️Unique opportunity to teach psychedelics at the University of Ottawa in @drmonnica.bsky.social ‘s program, they're looking for a French speaker (and obviously bilingual in English)‼️ This is an exceptional position 💫 To apply: uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/fr-CA/uOttaw...

My classroom for this week of classes at SciencesPo Menton, in France. This is the 5th year and I still can't get over it ^^

Yale University organizes a conference on the structural racism of the "War on Drugs". It's free: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very happy to see this article with @alexdymock.bsky.social read and appreciated! The open access link is here: mh.bmj.com/content/medh...

✨New article✨ The use of psychedelics can generate multiple effects related to pleasure, desire, sensuality and sexuality. With @alexdymock.bsky.social, we analyze how current scientific studies are looking at this subject and what the limitations of this work are mh.bmj.com/content/medh...

💥The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has just published an important editorial. A selection: « Problem drug use and physical dependency—contrary to popular belief—only affect around 10% of those who use drugs. […] The disastrous impact of

I've started posting shorts on YouTube (yes 😄) to share my adventures with you in other ways, and if you want to learn how to say Ayahuasca or Psychedelic in sign language, it's this way: youtube.com/shorts/Sha8Z... Conference organized by @chacruna.bsky.social last

For a future exhibition on psychedelics (it's still a secret 😁🤗) I'm watching an erotic LSD film from 1968, and it really sucks 😆 It tells the story of a young student who meets a group who smoke cannabis and use LD to indulge in orgies. Alice meets Janice and first

Walking to campus today by -24 ❄️ ✨ youtube.com/shorts/6rIdA...

I'm grading papers written by my students in the “Intoxicating Histories” course on the history of psychotropic drugs. I'd like to share with you an extract from Tellie Zerr's excellent work, which presents an analysis of the dehumanization of opiate users in 20th-century

🪴I'm writing a new article on the writer Anaïs Nin and her experience with LSD, and I discover that in 1936 her French doctor prescribed her cannabis for menstrual pain. This is astonishing, because at the time it was a drug that was virtually no longer prescribed (it was removed from the

🔥The magazine Sex&Psychedelics is looking for contributions for their Volume 3 dedicated to ecosexuality.🔥 This can be in written form (essays, interviews, prose, poetry, autobiographical reflection, more or less 1000 words maximum) or visual artistic production. The deadline for

In the Shanghai subway there are little cartoons to tell people not to smoke cannabis vapes, I'll let you enjoy the cute little policeman, the nasty dealer pig and the different states the substance is likely to plunge you into, from mild euphoria to anger, then

✨I'm in Shanghai for a workshop on psychedelics✨! As usual I won't binge you with photos here so for those interested it's on Instagram story: www.instagram.com/zoe__dubus/p...

Call for paper (in French) on the « non problematic » use of drugs 💥✊

Passionnant !

YESSSSS!!! Be ready, this is a great article, written with the no less great @alexdymock.bsky.social ✨

🍃Archeologists have just found traces of psychedelic substances in Egyptian cups dating from the 2nd century BC 💫 These cups represent the god Bes, called in Greek graffiti of the time the "giver of oracles" or the "giver of dreams". Among the substances analyzed in the cup is

‼️Historians, Psychonauts‼️ For a research project, I'm looking for harm reduction documents, pamphlets, posters… from the 1980s-1990s relating to ecstasy/MDMA use. Thank you for your help ♥️

💫Today is the anniversary of Aldous Huxley💫's death. "LSD - Try it 100µg intramuscular". It was with these few words painfully traced on the paper he had just asked his wife to write that the writer, at the end of his agony, put into practice his project to soothe the end of life through the

Great initiative (again!!) 1) I’m a French historian of the medical use of psychedelics 2) Currently working on a book presenting the pioneering work of women in this field during the 50’s-70’s 3) Enjoying @erikadyck.bsky.social book: Psychedelic, a visual Odyssey!!💕✨

The absurdity of prohibition, episode 18364839994672

Heyyy welcome everyone! I'm delighted that the psychedelic community has finally arrived on Bluesky! So I'm taking over this account that was on standby 🤗

One of the most important discoveries of my thesis on the medical history of LSD in France was the isolationism of French doctors, who continued to use shock techniques rather than caring for their patients. Where their colleagues in England, Canada, Germany, the USA, etc

Today, the first patient since 1966-7 officially received psilocybin in France ✨ I'm so happy to see this moment finally arrive ✨ It's not a miracle treatment, it won't work for everyone, it's only the beginnings and it'll take years for it to become - maybe - a drug, but

Today I'm taking part in a documentary about a 101-year-old nurse, Kay Parley, who cared for patients during LSD-assisted psychotherapy in 1950s Canada!

FINALLY!! France to start its first clinical trial on psychedelics! 🥳🥳🥳

Here's a book on the "Pioneers of Psychedelia", published in 2003... 47 men 1 woman (Laura Huxley) End of joke. Sooooo, to see the countless women who took part in this movement, go here: chacruna.net/chronicles/#...

Psychiatrist Joshua Bierer was one of the pioneers of the therapeutic use of LSD in England. I'm consulting his archives, in which he recounts one of his most spectacular cures, involving a woman, sex and even police officers! 🔞👮‍♂️ In 1950s society, still deeply marked by

In 1995, American psychologist Betty Eisner, a pioneer of LSD-assisted therapy in the 1950s, tells her old friend Ronald Sandison about celebrating her 80th birthday with mushrooms 🍄 😄🥳👵🏻

Oh my god the feverishness 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 It's for this feeling (in part) that I do history ✨♥️

Historians @erikadyck.bsky.social and @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social are looking for new short articles exploring the history of psychedelics around the world! chacruna.net/call-for-sub...

Like all women working in scientific fields, Betty Eisner was already less quoted than her male colleagues in her lifetime. In 1963, just as LSD was beginning to be stigmatized in medicine, she poked fun at this unequal situation in a letter...💁‍♀️👑

The Psychedelic and Pain Association has created a complete, up-to-date database of all studies conducted on the use of psychedelics for the treatment of pain, inflammation and immune response. Studies dating back to the 1960s demonstrate that psychedelics have powerful effects on pain reduction in

A teacher friend in Paris caught some six-year-olds playing "drug dealers". They had fake money, Lego pot bars and even... lookouts 😆🫠

On the occasion of the publication of Expanding Mindscapes: a Global History of Psychedelics, edited by historian Erika Dyck, in which I have written a chapter on the influence of gender on the practice of doctors using these substances, my university interviewed us! news.usask.ca/articles/res...

In 1907, the French press carried advertisements for cannabis-rolled cigarette paper, for "smoking happiness, spirit and laughter". The pack was decorated with photographs of naked women, to accentuate the already aggressive "erotic" aspect of the marketing.

✨My article (in French) on the agency of 19th-century female morphine users is online ✨ 1/ Summary: Since their invisibilization during the XXth century, women users of psychotropic drugs have only been of interest when they are mothers or sex workers. However, XIXth-century women