Does How We Talk About Mental Health Change How We Experience It?
In the book “Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness,” psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores the difficulty of naming and defining mental illness.
The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of
Scientists are designing new psychedelic-inspired drugs that don’t yet exist, which might have effects no one can yet describe.
Protecting Yourself From COVID Isn’t a Sign of Mental Illness
By calling people getting their COVID vaccines “mass formation psychosis,” anti-vax doctor Robert Malone misused language from group psychology and psychiatry on a recent interview with Joe Rogan. Here’s what it really means.
What We Don't Want to Know
Do you want to know what you’ll get for Christmas? A movie spoiler? When you’ll die? The study of deliberate ignorance reveals the topics people want to remain in the dark about.
The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy's Future
In a new documentary, VICE News explores what legal psychedelic therapy and access will be like in the US, and if it will be accessible.
Scientists Have Identified the First ‘True’ Millipede
“There is probably no more spectacular discovery to be made than finally a millipede with 1,000 legs.”
New Filing Challenges Compass Pathways’ Infamous Patent on Synthetic Psilocybin
The non-profit Freedom to Operate used research from chemists and crystallographers to argue in a legal filing that Compass’ form of synthetic psilocybin is not a new invention.
Psychedelic Telemedicine Has Arrived. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Long wait times, minimal therapy, and wrong dosing are some of the bad experiences clients say they’ve had with Mindbloom, a ketamine company. It and other psychedelic tech startups are raising questions about the limits of telemedicine in this field.
Why People on TikTok Want You to ‘Feel Your Feelings’
Is what you think about an emotion or what you feel about it more "real"? By asking, TikTok users are taking part in a longstanding philosophical and scientific debate.
Actually, Everyone Is Thinking About You
If this horrifies you, keep in mind people probably like you a lot more than you think.
The False Promise of Psychedelic Utopia
Some advocates claim that widespread psychedelic use will change the world for the better. But it’s not so simple.
The Philosopher Will See You Now
Some philosophical counselors offer useful help with problems of living; others aren’t sure mental illness is real. What will their field become?