Summary
Marlene Dobkin de Rios is a medical anthropologist and psychotherapist who has studied the use of Ayahuasca by Peruvian natives. She has published numerous books and articles on the cross-cultural look at the use of hallucinogens and sacred plants, as well as studying shamanic techniques of healing and psychotherapy.
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What We Can Learn from Shamanic Healing (2002)
Commentary. On "Human pharmacology of hoasca" (1996)
A modern-day shamanistic healer in the Peruvian Amazon (1989)
Psychoactive properties of !Kung Bushmen medicine plants (1989)
LSD & Creativity (with O. Janiger 1989)
Shamanism and altered states of consciousness: an introduction (1989)
Enigma of drug-induced altered states of consciousness among the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert (1986)
Plant hallucinogens, sexuality and shamanism in the ceramic art of ancient Peru (1982)
Socio-economic characteristics of an Amazon urban healer's clientele (1981)
Plant hallucinogens, shamanism and Nazca ceramics (1980)
Drug use and abuse in cross cultural perspective (1977)
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