James B Bakalar
Biographic Data
| ID | 361692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James B Bakalar |
| GIVEN NAMES | James B |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakalar |
| SIGNATURE | BAKALAR J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered
The Use of Cannabis as a Mood Stabilizer in Bipolar Disorder
The authors present case histories indicating that a number of patients find cannabis (marihuana) useful in the treatment of their bipolar disorder. Some used it to treat mania, depression, or both. They stated that it was more effective than conventional drugs, or helped relieve the side effects of those drugs. One woman found that cannabis curbed her manic rages; she and her husband have worked to make it legally available as a medicine. Others…
Social and Intellectual Attitudes Toward Drug-Induced Religious Experience
This article is a comment on the ambiguity of the psychedelic experience itself and the peculiarities of the modern social response to it. I discuss three kinds of attitudes toward psychedelic religious experience and compare them with three attitudes toward religious tradition described by Peter Berger. These are, roughly, materialist reductionism, defense of the purity of an orthodox faith, and religion as personal experiences given form and me…
Drug Control
Why Drug Policy Is So Harsh
Dark paradise
Coca and cocaine as medicines
Cocaine
Dark paradise
Social and Intellectual Attitudes Toward Drug-Induced Religious Experience
This article is a comment on the ambiguity of the psychedelic experience itself and the peculiarities of the modern social response to it. I discuss three kinds of attitudes toward psychedelic religious experience and compare them with three attitudes toward religious tradition described by Peter Berger. These are, roughly, materialist reductionism, defense of the purity of an orthodox faith, and religion as personal experiences given form and me…
Cocaine
Coca and cocaine as medicines
Why Drug Policy Is So Harsh
Dark paradise
Drug Control
Social and Intellectual Attitudes Toward Drug-Induced Religious Experience
This article is a comment on the ambiguity of the psychedelic experience itself and the peculiarities of the modern social response to it. I discuss three kinds of attitudes toward psychedelic religious experience and compare them with three attitudes toward religious tradition described by Peter Berger. These are, roughly, materialist reductionism, defense of the purity of an orthodox faith, and religion as personal experiences given form and me…
The Use of Cannabis as a Mood Stabilizer in Bipolar Disorder
The authors present case histories indicating that a number of patients find cannabis (marihuana) useful in the treatment of their bipolar disorder. Some used it to treat mania, depression, or both. They stated that it was more effective than conventional drugs, or helped relieve the side effects of those drugs. One woman found that cannabis curbed her manic rages; she and her husband have worked to make it legally available as a medicine. Others…
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered
Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Drug (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)