Psychotherapies are not just medical but also ethical projects. Alex Gearin and I looked at the ethical dimension of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Next in our series on the psychedelic humanities, we'll wade through the social construction of psychedelic medicine — from the Clusterbusters to limbic capitalism. April 25th w/ Shayla Love, Nicolas Langlitz, @joannakempner, & Nancy Campbell. eventbrite.com/e/the-social-h…

Great analysis by Awais Aftab of problems with the widely-shared Guardian article by Rose Cartwright on how she rejected the 'medical model' and turned to underground psychedelic therapy instead. psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-s…

Anthropologist Amanda Kearney pays $25 to PhD students and recent graduates for an interview on the future of anthropology (see flyer). Please reach out to her, if interested.

How is the rise of diversity remaking how we know the world? chronicle.com/article/how-di…

Wrote a piece for the MAPS bulletin about music and clinical psychedelic research with Leor Roseman 🦋 @leorroseman.bsky.social Check it out 😊 maps.org/news/bulletin/…

Viewpoint diversity vs. value neutrality, by way of Nicolas Langlitz's work on the intellectual history of diversity: chronicle.com/newsletter/the…

🌿Warm-up for #ICPR2024 with Daan F. Oostveen's hybrid talk on #PsychedelicHumanities: Method, Theory, and Collaboration. Join us May 16, 3 PM ET at The New School or via Zoom🧠RSVP by May 15: psychedhumanities at newschool edu📅 In-person or online! Hosted by me & Nicolas Langlitz

A second New York event on psychedelics & mysticism with Daan Oostveen on Sunday: eventbrite.com/e/confronting-…

The Frontiers special issue on "Psychedelic Humanities" that Erika Dyck, Tehseen Noorani, Alex Dymock, Anne Schlag, Oliver Davis, and I edited has been published as an e-book: frontiersin.org/research-topic…

For this week's The New Yorker, I wrote about how evolutionary insights are recasting much of moral behavior as a strategic performance for getting people to like you—and how, realizing this, I've struggled to build a moral framework that doesn't feel like self-interest in disguise.

The relationship between psychedelic science and humanities has been strained since the FDA AdCom hearings. The New School's Psychedelic Humanities Lab received an NEH grant for humanists and scientists to discuss the humanities' role in the psychedelic renaissance. 24/25 April.

After talking to the Guardian, I wonder when and where people began to feel "nature related" after taking psychedelics? And to which nature? A question for the new ASC archive built Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Is the psychedelic renaissance over? ecstaticintegration.org/p/is-the-psych…

Rob Lovering's Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use has just come out and contains quite a few interesting book chapters: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

I wrote about how figures like RFK Jr. and Elon Musk demonstrate that psychedelics don't exclusively belong, culturally or politically, to the left (and maybe they never did!). Gift link: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

"Anthropology Bright and Dark: Relativism, Value Pluralism, and the Comparative Study of the Good" by Joel Robbins, Nicolas Langlitz, Emir Mahieddin, Erica Weiss, Corinna Howland, Bruce Knauft, and Cheryl Mattingly is #OpenAccess in Social Analysis: bit.ly/4f2Lh1r

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