Posts tagged with 'psychedelics'
Recent psychedelic research: re-mining personal experience
9th January 2019
"Qualitative research has a rich tradition in the study of human social behaviour and cultures. Its general aim is to develop concepts which help us to understand social phenomena ... Qualitative approaches have particular potential in psychiatry research, singularly and in combination with quantitative methods." Stephen Agius "The brains of …
Recent psychedelic research: their use in the general population
7th January 2019
"If you teach someone to meditate or to do yoga or to go on pilgrimage to some holy mountain, nothing is guaranteed to happen. Yet if you are given 5 dried grams of magic mushrooms or DMT or some other potent psychedelic, whoever you are, a freight train of significance …
Recent psychedelic research: what are the risks?
6th January 2019
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." J. K. Galbraith "Although a bad LSD trip can be extremely frightening and distressing, psychedelics overall are among the safest drugs we know of. When the ISCD expert panel were rating LSD and mushrooms (which contain psilocybin) …
Recent psychedelic research: how do they work?
5th January 2019
Blake quotation? How do psychedelics work? This is a complex topic Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2019). "How do psychedelics work?" Current Opinion in Psychiatry 32(1): 16-21. Purpose of review Psychedelics are reawakening interest from psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience and the general public with impressive outcomes in small-scale clinical trials, intriguing human brain …
Recent psychedelic research: their use in psychotherapy (2nd post)
20th December 2018
This post is still under construction! This is the third in a series of blog posts about psychedelics. The two earlier posts are "Recent psychedelic research: an introduction" and "Their use in psychotherapy (1st post)", while the five later posts are "Recent psychedelic research: how do they work?", "What are …
Recent psychedelic research: their use in psychotherapy (1st post)
18th December 2018
"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." Nicholas Klein "Those who do not have the power over the …
Recent psychedelic research: an introduction
17th December 2018
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." Ralph Sockman "It's important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." Recent research suggests that psychedelics, when combined with psychotherapy, may be very helpful for a number of difficult-to-treat psychological disorders. …
Going back for a university reunion: self-esteem, hallucinogens, wonder & the transpersonal (4th post)
14th September 2012
"Who will prefer the jingle of jade pendants if he once has heard stone growing in a cliff?" Lao Tzu "To stand and stare, to watch the rising sun, fills me with such calm happiness, I am sure I have dwindled away too much time on inessentials." Diana Gault (when …