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This book covers the psychedelic ayahuasca tourism in Peru, with its facet-rich psychological, pharmacological, anthropological, and sociological aspects. The reader gets an interdisciplinary insight into the historical development and the current state of ayahuasca research. Findings from three empirical studies are presented, which the author has won in a 4-year field research: How do common standards develop in this particular form of psycho-spiritual tourism? Why are people from developed nations and urban centres heading to the Amazon to ingest the psychedelic beverage Ayahuasca? How do they experience such ceremonies and retreats? Which insights, personal meaning and effects do they gain and how do they integrate their experiences into the everyday life? Contents Traditional settings and ayahuasca tourism Spirituality and neo-shamanism Research history of psychedelic substances Ritual elements that influence psychedelic experiences Motivational elements for the ingestion of ayahuasca Phenomenological analysis of experiences of ayahuasca Subjective meanings, effects, healing theories and integration experiences The development of common standards in ayahuasca tourism Target Groups Scholars and students of medical anthropology, psychotherapy, ethno-psychiatry, ethno-pharmacology, public health, sociology, religious studies, tourism sciences Psychotherapists, psychological counselors The Author Tom John Wolff, Dipl.-Psych., is a licensed psychotherapist and addiction therapist in Germany.

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Experience (Religion) and hallucinogenic drugs --- Experience (Religion) --- Social work. --- Medical policy. --- Culture. --- Social Work. --- Health Policy. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Social aspects --- Government policy