Why did psychedelic therapy fail to get FDA approval the first time around?

Lessons from the 1970s

For this first ever edition of Ecstatic Integration, we’re reviewing a great book by historian Matthew Oram, called The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in the United States. It argues that, contrary to conventional opinion, psychedelic therapy failed to go mainstream in the 1970s not because of a governmental backlash against the hippy …