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Philosophy of Psychedelics by Chris Letheby (Hardcover, 2021)
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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.Within the book, Letheby integrates empirical evidence and philosophical considerations in the service of a simple conclusion: this Comforting Delusion Objection to psychedelic therapy fails. While exotic metaphysical ideas do sometimes come up, they are not, on closer inspection, the central driver of change in psychedelic therapy. Psychedelics lead to lasting benefits by altering the sense of self, and changing how people relate to their own minds and lives-not by changing their beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality. The upshot is that a traditional conception of psychedelics as agents of insight and spirituality can be reconciled with naturalism (the philosophical position that the natural world is all there is). Controlled psychedelic use can lead to genuine forms of knowledge gain and spiritual growth-even if no Cosmic Consciousness or transcendent divine Reality exists.Philosophy of Psychedelics is an indispensable guide to the literature for researchers already engaged in the field of psychedelic psychiatry, and for researchers-especially philosophers-who want to become acquainted with this increasingly topical field.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780198843122
eBay Product ID (ePID)26046591610
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Book TitlePhilosophy of Psychedelics
AuthorChris Letheby
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMedicine, Psychology, Popular Philosophy, Biology
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height241mm
Item Width163mm
Item Weight550 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorChris Letheby
Topic AreaBiological Psychology
Series TitleInternational Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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