Psychedelics and Mental Health: Rose Cartwright meets Sara Tai

The producers of this podcast (part of the BBC’s One to One series) say: “In recent years there’s been a renaissance of interest in psychedelics in the West, on a scale not seen since the first wave of medical research in…
Read more

Psychedelic therapy could ‘reset’ depressed brain

Rachel Schraer reports for the BBC: “A powerful hallucinogenic drug known for its part in shamanic rituals is being trialled as a potential cure for depression for the first time. Participants will be given the drug DMT, followed by talking therapy….
Read more

Darkness therapy: could seven days in pitch blackness open your eyes to the world?

“Patients report seismic psychological changes after spending a week in darkness – but science sounds a note of caution” Writing in The Telegraph newspaper, David Hillier reports: “Darkness gets a terrible rap, doesn’t it? Imagine yourself surrounded by interminable blackness and you’ll…
Read more

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
Read more

Follow

Get the latest posts delivered to your mailbox:

Your email address will not be passed to any other organisation. It will only be used to send you new posts made on this website.

MENU