Once demonized and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a "breakthrough therapy," used to treat depression, trauma and addiction and to enhance wellbeing. But as neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell shows this approach misses what is so strange and valuable about them: the psychedelic experience itself. Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings to provide a panoramic view of psychedelics today: their capacity for healing but also trauma, for transcendence and corruption, profundity and hilarity.
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