Erika Dyck is a Professor of History and a Canada Research Chair in Medical History at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Erika in her research has concentrated on the history of madness, addiction, drug experimentation, eugenics, and psychiatric institutionalization in Canada over the 20th century. Erika published her first book "Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus" which explored the history of LSD experimentation in western Canada, trials that introduced the word psychedelic and promoted LSD as a treatment for alcoholism.