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Title How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence / Michael Pollan
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2018
©2018

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Teknik och medicin  615 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xii, 465 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue: A new door -- A renaissance -- Natural history: bemushroomed -- History: the first wave. Part I: the promise ; Part II: the crack-up -- Travelogue: journeying underground. Trip one: LSD ; Trip two: Psilocybin ; Trip three: 5-MeO-DMT (or, the toad) -- The neuroscience: your brain on psychedelics -- The trip treatment: Psychedelics in psychotherapy. One: Dying ; Two: Addiction ; Three: Depression ; Coda: Going to meet my default mode network -- Epilogue: In praise of neural diversity
"When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists ..."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Pollan, Michael -- Mental health
Pollan, Michael, 1955- -- Mental health
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Therapeutic use
Psychotherapy patients -- Biography
Droger
Hallucinogener
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
MEDICAL / Mental Health
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Therapeutic use
Psychotherapy patients -- Biography
Hallucinogens
Autobiographies.
Classmark 615.7/883
BIO015000 MED102000
ISBN/ISSN 9781594204227 hardcover
1594204225 hardcover
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