Women, Psychedelics, Autonomy and Eugenics with Erika Dyck
Synchronicity with Noah Lampert
Noah Lampert
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Erika Dyck, PhD (McMaster), MA (USask), BA (Dalhousie), Professor, Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine stops by Synchronicity to discuss how women have been whitewashed from psychedelic research AND the disturbing case of government sponsored eugenics in Alberta, Canada. It's a doozy!
Dr. Dyck's chief interests are in the history of psychiatry, mental health, deinstitutionalization and eugenics. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry which examines the history of LSD experimentation and how it fit within broader trends in the changing orientation of psychiatry during the post-World War II period.
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| 0:21.6 | This is synchronization. Welcome to Synchronicity. My guest this week is Erica Dyke. We had an awesome conversation about, as you can tell, from the titles, the whitewashing of women and psychedelics, and specifically how Saskatoon in Canada actually was kind of an epicenter for the original psychedelic research back in the 50s and 60s for a variety of reasons, which we get into, but how the women |
| 1:12.8 | who were often critical components of this research have just completely been omitted from |
| 1:20.0 | the history books. And the reason I'm so interested in this is, if you've heard the earlier |
| 1:27.3 | episode, I spoke about Michael Pollan's |
| 1:29.5 | book being quite good, but one of my critiques of it was that he just really did not represent |
| 1:35.6 | or do any type of exploration into women's role in psychedelics. And I think, as you'll hear in |
| 1:41.7 | this episode, there's a lot of things that women can provide and bring, |
| 1:45.9 | not that men can't, but that the balance of those energies and kind of perspectives can |
| 1:51.1 | ultimately be much better for the overall kind of picture of what we're getting with psychedelics. |
| 1:57.3 | You know, I think Michael Pollan mentioned Maria Sabina, obviously the Mexican woman who introduced |
| 2:03.0 | Alan Wasson to psychedelic mushrooms and Kathleen McLean. |
| 2:09.3 | But outside of that, really not too much focus on it. |
| 2:11.8 | And I think it's very important, whether it's women, minorities, just underrepresented people in general, that we do shine lights |
| 2:20.5 | on what they've contributed and what they continue to contribute to whatever we're interested in, |
| 2:25.9 | because it can be very easy to forget that white men and white people in general have been |
| 2:33.7 | running things for a very long time. And that |
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