Trepanation: The Cure for Psychosis (with Glossary)
Amsterdam: Foundation for Independent Thinking, 1970.
First edition. [2][, 42, [4] pp. with 12 pp. booklet Glossary with Homo Sapiens Correctus and Trepanation The Cure for Psychosis laid in. Bound in publisher's orange stapled wraps. Very Good+, lightly scuffed and shelf-worn. A scarce work on trepanation, the surgical drilling of a hole in the human head. The author, a Dutch librarian, was its best-known proponent, having drilled a hole in his own skull in 1965. Four copies of this edition found in an OCLC WorldCat search, only one of which is in the US. Trepanation is perhaps the furthest-out point of 1960s "far-out" thinking in global counterculture. This work combines trepanation with anti-psychiatry ideas, which were in vogue at the time, for a DIY cure-all guide for all mental ills; recommended as a historical document, not for any medical treatment.
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