Salvador Roquet, María Sabina, and the Trouble withJipis
Hispanic American Historical Review February 1, 2015 Alexander Dawson 16 citations
This essay introduces Salvador Roquet, an iconoclastic psychiatrist who collaborated with the famed Mazatec curandera María Sabina, and argues that their work together exemplifies a cross-cultural collaboration in psychedelic psychiatry. Roquet developed a therapeutic method partly from Sabina's teachings, and both shared a disdain for jipis (hippies). Their partnership offers an alternative history of psychedelic drugs in Mexico, where local, naturally occurring psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, datura, and ololiuqui were seen as powerful medicines requiring respect, expert handling, and careful prescription, with the counterculture acting as a foil to this view.