How to Change Your Mind

the “strength of the experience and the effect” on drinking behavior. The New Mexico results were encouraging enou ...

When I asked McDaniels how long she had been sober, she surprised me: she wasn’t. She’d actually been on ...

interviewed had told me about—the so-called rat park experiment. It’s well known in the field of drug abu ...

things, a radical form of selfishness. One of the challenges of treating the addict is getting him to broaden ...

well as the positive feeling of being a small self in the presence of something greater.” The concept of ...

meeting, explaining that it doesn’t comment on drugs in development or under regulatory review.) Much the same ...

depression study, the lab’s first foray into clinical research. Watts guided several sessions and then c ...

“At its most basic, I feel like I used to before the depression.” Others reconnected to other people: “I ...

image aside, but I didn’t. In and through: Instead, I looked the horse in the eyes—and promptly started t ...

repeated.) But the potential of the therapy has regulators and researchers and much of the mental health community ...

Yet the fact that psychedelics have produced such a signal across a range of indications can be interp ...

addiction, depression, anxiety, mania, and obsession; in his view, all these disorders involve learned habits of ...

“Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the s ...

network has the potential to help relieve several forms of mental illness, including the handful of disorders psy ...

performed by the so-called autobiographical or experiential self: the mental operation responsible for the narr ...

vocabularies—whether spiritual, humanistic, psychoanalytic, or neurological—it is finally the loss of ego or self ( ...

altruistic—that is, more spiritual—idea of what matters in life. One in which a new sense of connection, or l ...

As Brewer explains it, activity in the PCC is correlated not so much with our thoughts and feelings as wit ...

“run”—lasting a few minutes—he would project a bar graph on the screen in front of me; the length of each b ...

moment that this structure represented my ego, and the landscape above which it loomed was, I presumed, ...