Community Counseling: Contemporary Theory and Practice Book

This has been in my library since it came out, and I wish I'd read it earlier. Not because I would have benefited any more from the information it contains but because then its layout and design wouldn't feel so dated. Like so much from the late 90s, with that Wired magazine emphasis on form over function and of font over content, this book's layout, with thick black ehorizontal rules on both sides of the text and comics placed randomly throughout, leaves a lot to be desired. That said, it is well written enough to be enjoyable in spite of stylistic limitations and it provides a neuroscientific rationale justifying further research into psychedelic medicines. Many of the weblinks are long-dead, and I am certain that the state of the research is far past what is documented here, but this is still an entertaining introduction to the history and science of psychedelic substances. And it contains two essential research tools for any sort of inner exploration, substance-induced or otherwise: Ralph Metzner's Altered States Graphic Profile (ASGP) form and Rick Strassman's Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS)!