Philosophy of Psychedelics Chris Letheby 1st edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198843127
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198843122
• Author: Chris Letheby

Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations. Supervised psychedelic sessions can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addiction, and improve well-being in healthy volunteers, for months or even years. But these benefits seem to be mediated by “mystical” experiences of cosmic consciousness, which prompts a philosophical concern: do psychedelics cause psychological benefits by inducing false or implausible beliefs about the metaphysical nature of reality?

This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs. Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. On the need for a natural philosophy of psychedelics

3. The phenomenology of psychedelic therapy

4. The mechanisms of psychedelic therapy

5. The role of self-representation

6. Resetting the brain

7. Unbinding the self

8. Epistemology

9. Spirituality

10. Conclusion

References
Index

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