A neuropsychologist takes ten different psychedelic drugs in this
panoramic, profound and wildly entertaining investigation.
'Original and thrilling' Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts 'Utterly
compelling' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters 'A hair-raising
hurtle of a ride' Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of Grass 'The
psychedelic world has been waiting for this book' Professor Erika
Dyck Psychedelics may have made a comeback but they still remain a
mystery. They are now a 'breakthrough therapy' for mental illness
but the truth is we have only a vague idea how they work and there
is a limit to what science alone can reveal. To have any hope of
understanding them fully, we need first to broaden our view -
dramatically - of what they are. In this daring,
perception-shifting odyssey, clinical neuropsychologist Andy
Mitchell takes ten different drugs in ten different settings,
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, as well as with the drugs
themselves, reveal the reality of psychedelics in all their
richness, darkness, hilarity, wonder and strangeness. We see that
the drive to extract these substances from their indigenous and
underground cultures comes with risk as well as opportunity, and
that to make them safe or normal might ultimately destroy what
makes them potent. We also see, more vividly than ever before, what
makes them so rapturously enchanting and confounding. 'Beguiling,
captivating, mind-expanding. It's impossible to read this book and
not be tempted to replicate some of its wild, sanity-stretching
forays into the peculiarities of human perception' Stuart Ritchie,
author of Science Fictions 'A dazzling, timely book, as deep and
poignant as it is madcap and hilarious' Mark Lythgoe, Director of
the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, University College
London
General
Imprint: |
The Bodley Head Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Andy Mitchell
|
Dimensions: |
240 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84792-697-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-84792-697-5 |
Barcode: |
9781847926975 |
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