Ten trips : the new reality of psychedelics
Mitchell, Andy2023
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Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'breakthrough therapy', used to treat depression, trauma and addiction and to enhance well-being. But as neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell shows in this deeply serious yet wildly entertaining investigation, this approach misses what is so strange and valuable about them: the psychedelic experience itself. In 'Ten Trips' he takes ten different compounds, some famous, others obscure, journeying from a neuroimaging lab in London to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend's basement kitchen. His encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con-men, psychonauts and shamans provide a panoramic view of psychedelics today: their capacity for healing but also trauma, for transcendence and corruption, profundity and hilarity.
Main title:
Ten trips : the new reality of psychedelics / Andy Mitchell.
Author:
Mitchell, Andy, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2023.
Collation:
340 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781847926975 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
615.7883615.788
Language:
English
BRN:
2627003
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