A brief history of 'mindfucking'

Or the (usually malicious) undermining of a person's sense of reality while they're on drugs, or online

This is a rare post that I’m posting on both my newsletters…Here, it’s the first of a three-parter on the history of bum trips. Next issue, Ed Prideaux will look at the history of the term ‘acid casualty’.

There are at least four definitions of ‘mindfuck’: