How to Change Your Mind

A few critical voices were heard. In a pair of blog posts on PLOS, James Coyne raised several met ...

Several of the NYU therapists referred me to the writing of Viktor E. Frankl, the Viennese psychoanalyst and the au ...

Katrin H. Preller et al., “The Fabric of Meaning and Subjective Effects in LSD-Induced States Depend on Serotoni ...

The experience would shape his post-NASA work: the former engineer established the Institute of Noetic Sciences ...

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He ...

Quoted in Charles S. Grob, “Psychiatric Research with Hallucinogens: What Have We Learned?,” Heffter Revi ...

Ibogaine, a psychedelic derived from the root of an African shrub, is being used underground as well as ...

As for the three volunteers who received no benefit, they had mild or unremarkable sessions. This might ...

By me, as it happened. “The Trip Treatment,” New Yorker, Feb. 9, 2015. ...

This is how Freud understood depression, which he called melancholia: after the loss of an object of desi ...

Tom Insel, who after leaving the NIMH went to work for Google’s life science subsidiary, Verily, before joi ...

Or at least people who can afford it. One advantage of medicalizing psychedelic therapy is that it would pres ...

He recounts these experiences in his book Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry (New York: Little, Brown ...

I don’t dismiss the possibility they may come from somewhere else, but will confine myself here to the mo ...

In a 1969 essay in the Harvard Theological Review, Walter Pahnke described several distinct modes of psychedeli ...

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