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Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness Paperback – July 14, 2020

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What have the hippies ever done for us? Matthew Ingram explores the relationship between the summer of love and wellness, medicine, and health.

The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect -- both in its core identity and in terms of its ongoing significance and impact -- is its relationship with health.

In this popular and illuminating cultural history of the relationship between health and the counterculture, Matthew Ingram connects the dots between the beats, yoga, meditation, psychedelics, psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy, sex, and veganism, showing how the hippies still have a lot to teach us about our wellbeing.
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  6. ISBN-10
    1912248786
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"This richly researched archaeology of the counterculture places health at its core, showing how ideas of healing and therapy were inextricably bound up with the era’s spiritual cravings and erotic politics. Every chapter scintillates with unexpected connections and startling insights.”
— Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Energy Flash

”A rich tapestry of mind-altering influences of the counterculture that shaped our aspirations. Enjoy the ride. I did.” — Patrick Holford, author of The Optimum Nutrition Bible

"A huge range of interviews, intelligent analysis and concise, sympathetic observation make this a compulsively readable but also impressively erudite account of this endlessly fascinating subject.” - Jeremy Gilbert

“A riot of a read. Ingram’s exploration of how psychoanalysis and psychedelics fused with meditation, mysticism and spiritual awakening to oil the cogs of the contemporary wellness economy is both forensic and radically irreverent.” - Financial Times

"An eerily pertinent exploration of wellness and the counterculture." - Los Angeles Review of Books

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Repeater (July 14, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 536 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912248786
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912248780
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.13 x 1.49 x 7.74 inches
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A fanatic record-collector, Matthew Ingram started blogging as WOEBOT in 2003.

The cult blog featured in articles in The Guardian, Slate, FACT and The Wire. He ended up writing features and reviews for The Wire and a column for FACT. In this period Matthew co-founded the Dissensus forum with Mark "k-punk" Fisher and released critically-acclaimed music as WOEBOT.

An animator by trade, Matthew's interests have spread from music to other topics. In 2020 Repeater Books will publish his book, "Retreat. How the Counterculture invented Wellness."

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I can say with certainty that this work is one of a kind, and fills a major chunk of history that mainstream media and pop culture has overlooked and will continue to ignore. It must have taken Mr. Ingram a lifetime of observation to collect all of this, and the youth of the future will have much clearer maps to navigate with if they use Retreat as their compass. Particularly important are the sections linking health and wellness to people who also pioneered natural lifestyles.Cheers from California +++++
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Dean
5.0 out of 5 stars Your second chance to flirt with Karma
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2021
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Most of the subjects you dipped into in the late sixties or early seventies, for the first time. Then you put these away, got busy, made a living, raised a family, etc. Now you can go back in the pool; and really enjoy it.
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Gordon Kennedy
5.0 out of 5 stars The West is the best
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2021
I can say with certainty that this work is one of a kind, and fills a major chunk of history that mainstream media and pop culture has overlooked and will continue to ignore. It must have taken Mr. Ingram a lifetime of observation to collect all of this, and the youth of the future will have much clearer maps to navigate with if they use Retreat as their compass. Particularly important are the sections linking health and wellness to people who also pioneered natural lifestyles.
Cheers from California +++++
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Gordon Kennedy
5.0 out of 5 stars The West is the best
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2021
I can say with certainty that this work is one of a kind, and fills a major chunk of history that mainstream media and pop culture has overlooked and will continue to ignore. It must have taken Mr. Ingram a lifetime of observation to collect all of this, and the youth of the future will have much clearer maps to navigate with if they use Retreat as their compass. Particularly important are the sections linking health and wellness to people who also pioneered natural lifestyles.
Cheers from California +++++
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Marty Hirsch Howes
4.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT BOOK
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2020
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Very interesting and in depth look at the counter culture spiritual seeking world. VERY long read. Longer than I expected.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting overview
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
Picks up where Curtis's Century of the Self leaves off. Its section on "Games" is especially intriguing.
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Kristine Fisher
2.0 out of 5 stars Retreat
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021
Retreat by Matthew Ingram is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early August.

Eastern religion and disciplines, diets, New Age healing and therapies, philosophy, traditional psychiatry, hallucinogenic drugs, and key players of the counterculture under the influence - all outlined in paragraphs from the Ingram's perspective (sort of like an elongated game of Never Have I Ever).
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Benny B
5.0 out of 5 stars Un libro magistral sobre la contracultura y bienestar
Reviewed in Spain on March 2, 2021
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Un libro imprescindible para conocer la historia de la contracultura a través de la psicología, terapia, y arte de los años 50, 60 y 70, contado por un escritor de primera clase. Muy recomendable.
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Dr. B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightenment is here
Reviewed in France on February 28, 2021
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Anyone familiar with Ingram's journalistic output on music will know that he has passion in spades for rooting around amongst the cultural connections and a generous, communicative talent for transmitting those coordinates when anything fragrant is uncovered. Here he digs above and beyond that with the usual fearless acumen and an impressively open and evolving scope of research. Swathes of players and ideas are referenced here in that same, fine, discursive Woebot style and he also grinds down the shoe leather and goes knocking on doors to buttonhole some major players. All in all, heartily recommended to anyone with an interest in modern culture and well worth a nomination for a Percy Thrower award for lifetime services to digging.
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mrrafs
5.0 out of 5 stars What's love got to do with it?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2020
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YES WAY! Concepts of wellness, particularly lifestyle and mental health, has since Freud, dramatically changed our world. The idea space of how society now understand's modern health, seems to owe much to how hippies and other seekers of the 50/60/70's established concepts in culture that we now all take for granted. This book is an adventure in that healing. An enjoyable and thoroughly researched piece of work that joins history together.
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Jim Clarke
5.0 out of 5 stars Lucid Scintillating Delight
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2021
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A vast repository of information; meticulously researched leaving no yoga mat unturned. Embarking on this mammoth tome felt like backpacking round India again, sheer excitement. Dive in; it might change your life!
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