Title: Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations.

Author: Heinrich Klüver.

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press.

Publication details: Preface copyright 1966 by The University of Chicago; volume originally published 1966, this copy a second impression 1969; printed in the United States of America.

Format: Vintage red cloth hardcover psychology and psychiatry monograph, issued without dust jacket.

Language: English.

Genre/Subject: Psychiatry, psychology, hallucinations, mescaline, psychopharmacology, perception, and abnormal psychology.

Narrative type and audience: Nonfiction scholarly study written for adult readers, researchers, clinicians, and students interested in hallucinations and drug-induced states.

Country of origin: Published and printed in the United States of America by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Physical details: Solid red cloth boards with white spine titling, plain endpapers, and a traditional serif typeface set in single-column pages.

Illustrations and features: Includes a black-and-white frontispiece illustration adapted from Stefan Szuman (Kwartalnik psychologiczny, 1930) along with footnotes and scholarly references integrated into the text.

Contents overview: Presents Klüver's classic investigations of mescal (mescaline) experiences and the psychology of hallucinations, with sections on mescal visions, changes in different sense fields, the content of hallucinations, and the importance of research on visual disturbances.

Summary: Brings together the monograph on mescal and the essay "Mechanisms of Hallucinations," examining the phenomenology and underlying mechanisms of drug-induced hallucinations and their implications for psychiatry and general psychological theory.

Library reference: Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-20593.

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